Brittney vs Boogie in a 1-on-1 match? Who you got?

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Ever since they got off the plane from Houston, Brittney Griner and DeMarcus Cousins have been playfully trash-talking about who would win a 1-on-1 matchup between the two USA Basketball bigs.

Griner said it all started on the plane when the men's team was playing cards. She and Cousins started "chatting" and then talk of a 1-on-1 matchup took off.

"It started and then turned into friendly "trash-talk," Griner said.

"I'm glad she's that confident in her abilities, but it's also a little delusional." - DeMarcus Cousins https://t.co/I4Hq4AYdHW

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 17, 2016

With both teams in the chase for a gold medal it won't happen in Rio. It has gotten the two players closer.

"Being the type of person Brittney is, she's a great person to be around," Cousins said. "She's always the life of the party, or whatever the case may be. Her talking the way she does, doesn't surprise me at all."

DeMarcus Cousins celebrates basket against Argentina on Wednesday (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Griner ceded that if they couldn't play 1-on-1 she wouldn't want to get into a dunk contest with the Sacramento Kings star. However she does a contest she'd come out the winner of.

"Maybe we can do like 10 post-ups, five on each block guarding against each other. Fouls count as a point. He does like to foul. Maybe we could do something like that," she said laughing.

"I'm glad she's that confident in her abilities, but it's also a little delusional." - DeMarcus Cousins https://t.co/I4Hq4AYdHW

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 17, 2016

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Obama welcomes relatives of 1936 African-American Olympians

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of Jesse Owens and America's 17 other black athletes from the 1936 Olympics were welcomed to the White House on Thursday by President Barack Obama for the acknowledgement they didn't receive along with their white counterparts 80 years ago.

Along with the relatives of the 1936 African-American Olympians, gloved-fist protesters Tommie Smith and John Carlos and members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams met the president and first lady Michelle Obama. Obama congratulated the Rio athletes, thanked Smith and Carlos for waking up Americans in 1968 and praised 1936 Olympians who made a statement in front of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.

A look at rising costs for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

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TOKYO (AP) — An expert panel set up by Tokyo's newly elected governor says the price tag of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics could exceed $30 billion unless drastic cost-cutting measures are taken. That's more than a four-fold increase from the initial estimate at the time Tokyo was awarded the games in 2013.

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# Team G S B Total
1 United States 46 37 38 121
2 United Kingdom 27 23 17 67
3 China 26 18 26 70
4 Russia 19 18 19 56
5 Germany 17 10 15 42
6 Japan 12 8 21 41
7 France 10 18 14 42
8 South Korea 9 3 9 21
9 Italy 8 12 8 28
10 Australia 8 11 10 29

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