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Puerto Rico celebrates…

Puerto Rico celebrates after beating Slovenia 81-70 yesterday in basketball’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Athens. Tonight it will face Greece or New Zealand who were playing late last night, in the second semifinal of the event. Earlier Germany, which beat Brazil 78-65, will play Croatia, which eliminated Canada 83-62. The winners go straight to the Olympics and the losers will do battle tomorrow for the third ticket.

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