Turks see of US at games

Turkish men's wheelchair basketball team beat the United States 59-50 on the first day of the Paralympic Games yesterday. Turkey was trailing United States by three points at the start of the fourth quarter, but a strong performance of 17-5 in the last period clinched the game for Turkey. The team will now meet Australia in its second game in the preliminary round today. Meanwhile, Turkey's goalball team also made a strong start to the Paralympics with a 9-2 win over Sweden. Turkey will meet host Great Britain in the second round of the Group A. Also, Turkish judoka Gulhan Kılıç lost to Germany's Ramona Brussig in the women's 52kg quarterfinal game and thus missed out on a chance to win a gold medal. Apart from the wheelchair basketball and goalball events, Turkish athletes will compete in archery, judo, table tennis and shooting today. The highlight of the Paralympic Games, the track and field events, also start today. The opening ceremony of the Games was held at the Olympic Stadium in London on Aug. 29. At the ceremony, archer Gizem Girismen, Turkey's first ever female Paralympic gold medalist, carried the flag for the national squad.