Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics was the eighteenth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It was held from 28 July to 12 August 2012. The preliminary matches and the women's quarterfinal matches were played in the new Basketball Arena in Olympic Park, which seated up to 12,000 spectators. The men's knockout games and the women's games, from semifinals onward were played in the North Greenwich Arena.
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Duration | 28 July – 12 August 2012 | ||||||||
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The US men's and US women's teams both successfully defended their Olympic basketball championships of 2008.