USA Basketball: The Redeem Team

After being upstaged by teams like Argentina and Italy in the 2004 Games, Team USA was no longer the Dream Team that dominated the court in the 1990s. For a team that had the bottomless talent pool of the NBA at its disposal, another failure was simply not acceptable. So they hired the best coach in the land--Duke University's Mike Krzyzewski--and got a stellar line-up that included the likes of Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Chris Paul. 

However, they still had to contend with big teams like the hosts, China, and runners-up, Spain, which they did, and won back what was rightfully theirs!