Explanations for the United States of America's dominance in basketball at the Beijing Olympic Games (2008)

Journal of Sports Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-152

  Sampaio, Jaime ^a   Lago, Carlos ^b   Drinkwater, Eric J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Match analysis; Statistics; Team sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749278456     PISSN: 02640414     EISSN: 1466447X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02640410903380486     Document Type: Article

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