Spain, Angola others know opponent

According to the president of Spanish Basketball Federation, FEB, José Luis Sáez, will be present at the drawing, which is set to begin at 5:30 local time at the Wukesong Arena in China´s capital , where the Olympic basketball competition, and a friendly tournament of the women´s league to test the facility, will take place.

The national Spanish men´s team will find out who their first round Beijing 2008 Olympic tournament rivals are. FIBA and the BOCOG, which stands for the XXIX Olympic Games Organizational Committee, will carry out a drawing at 5:30 p.m. local Chinese time to determine the groups of the men´s and women´s competitions.

The event will take place at the Wukesong Indoor Stadium of Beijing, where all Olympic basketball games will be played.

Lubomir Kotleva, FIBA athletics director, will carry out the drawing (which can be seen live on fiba.com) and will explain the procedure of how the groups will be made for the Olympic men´s tournament to all present.

It´s important to keep in mind that between June and July classifying tournaments will award spots to play in the Olympics to the teams that qualify.

There are three spots available for the men´s tournament, and five available for the women´s tournament. The drawing of the competition groups for the women´s games will take place on Sunday, June 15th in Madrid, just as the women´s Pre-Olympic tournament comes to a close in Spain´s capital.

MEN´S OLYMPIC TOURNAMENT
The men´s teams which have already classified for the Olympics in Beijing are: Spain, U.S.A., Russia, Lithuania, Iran, China, Australia, Argentina and Angola.

There are three spots still available to complete the total of twelve teams that will participate in the men´s tournament, and they will be decided at the classification tournament held among Brazil, Greece, Lebanon, Cape Verde, Germany, New Zealand, Canada, Koream Solvenia, Cameroon, Croatia, and Puerto Rico in Athens (Greeece), from July 14th-20th.

WOMEN´S OLYMPIC TOURNAMENT
The women´s competition still has five passports to the Olympic Games available. The countries which are already playing are: Australia, China, Korea, Mali, New Zealand, Russia, and the United States.

The Spanish women´s national team will have the possibility of winning one of the 5 spots up for grabs at the Pre-Olympic tournament that will be played among Japan, Latvia, Senegal, Anola, Argentina, the Czech Republic, Brazil, Figi, Belarus, Taiwan and Cuba, in Madrid (at the Telefónica Arena, June 9th-15th).