RIO DE JANEIRO (Rio 2016 Olympic Games) – Spain will play in their first Gold Medal Game in the Women’s Olympic Basketball Tournament after beating Serbia, 68-54, in Thursday’s first Semi-Final at Carioca Arena 1. But the rest of the American contingent that has been around for all the matchups with the Spanish never believed the talk that Spain, even with Gasol, Calderon and five-time Olympian Juan Carlos Navarro nearing the end of their brilliant careers, was too old for another run. Bird’s status is day to day. Meanwhile, Fowles converted a three-point play, Lindsay Whalen scored three points and Elena Delle Donne converted a three-point play, and the U.S. led 65-43 with 24.9 seconds left in the third quarter.
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The Olympic celebration for Spain’s women’s basketball team is on.
Ashton Eaton retained his title by tying the Olympic record in the decathlon, Ryan Crouser led an American one-two in the shot put with a new games record, and Kerron Clement delivered another gold for the United States in the 400 hurdles.
Stacy Lewis made 11 birdies to match the low score at Olympic Golf Course with an 8-under 63, putting her right in the mix for a gold medal in women’s golf. “This is going to be a great game between great teams and great players alike”. “Pretty hard”, she said of not being on the court. George has assured fans that there will be no complacency among the United States players.
“I’m not going to be stupid about this”, Bird said. France responded to close the first half by outscoring the U.S. 14-8, France ended the first half trailing by just four points, 40-36.
This time they contained a team that was as explosive as themselves over the last four games, as Spain had averaged 97.3 points and won by more than 25 per game after dropping its first two in Brazil.
With just the clock and the crowd for company in their re-run hours later, they took the stick around in 41.77 seconds to knock slowest-qualifier China out the final and get in through the back door.
“I think we still don’t think we know what we have done here, but for sure we don’t want to stop here”. They practice their shooting, and their plays, and their defensive rotations and they were on point in that first half. Slobodan Nikic and Dusko Pijetlovic extended their team’s lead to 3-0 at the end of the first quarter.
Though they didn’t have a chance to medal, Hungary was still able to get back in the win column Thursday with a 13-4 rout of host Brazil in the classification rounds.
It was only the second time in Rio that the USA didn’t reach 100 points in a game.
The Americans pulled away to win 118-107 in 2008 and held on for a 107-100 victory in London, but the defenses made their mark in this one.
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Marianne Johannes scored 13 to lead France, which will play Serbia for the bronze medal on Saturday.
