Glen Saville will be the lone ahm Hawk participating at the 2008 Beijing Olympics following the Lindsay Tait & New Zealand Tall Blacks elimination from the final qualifying stage in Greece over the weekend.

Tait top scored for NZ with 9 points.

Olympic Dream Over

The New Zealand Tall Blacks Olympic dream has ended.

At the hands of powerful sixth-ranked Greece, and in front of 20,000 raucous pro-Hellas fans, the Tall Blacks were eliminated 75-48 in the quarterfinals of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Athens on Saturday morning.

Guard Vassilis Spanoulis scored a game-high 14 points in a balanced Greek offence, which saw 11 of their 12-man squad score, while Dimitrios Diamantidis had 11 points and eight rebounds as Greece advanced to meet Puerto Rico in tomorrow’s semifinals.

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