More importantly, it also has round the clock security and a bulletproof security wall, because Rio. But what about the female basketball team, have they did not earn the right to a luxury cruise liner or the swim team, has Michael Phelps not done enough to stay on that cruise as well? “If we can do it against each other, we can do it against anyone in the world”.
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Team USA basketball teams haven’t stayed in the Olympic Village since 1988. And though the USA could still have a winning percentage of better than 95 percent in Olympic competition (they’re now 130-5) after these Olympics, it would take only one loss for their position atop the basketball world to look a lot less comfortable.
Maya Moore won at the 2012 Olympics in London.
The U.S. arrives in Rio having played four of its five exhibition games against the three worst teams in the Olympic field.
Two years prior, at the other big global basketball competition, the 2002 FIBA World Championship in Indianapolis, Indiana, the host nation failed to pick up any medals at all, finishing in a somewhat humiliating sixth position. “We have been preparing the way we always do, focusing on every single game individually, and we will be competitive”.
“I’m the one that has the bull’s-eye on my back”.
Former LSU women’s basketball standouts Seimone Augustus and Sylvia Fowles will take the court for their first game of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday at 10 a.m. CT. Team USA faces Senegal in the first competition of the preliminary round. “So this has kind of nearly been like normal for my Olympic experience”. She told reporters that the final practice in Houston, Texas helped the team get ready for the games. “In terms of what we’re doing in a global game, that kind of dominance you don’t see”. They include the Zika virus, polluted water and hotel rooms in disrepair.
But this year, they expect big turnouts of fans to support the U.S. Women’s National Team, coming off a dominating performance in the 2015 Women’s World Cup and expected to make another run for gold this year. “We are focused on winning and that’s what we care about”. It’s just like we would be staying in a hotel. Due to the sponsorship, they have to stay on a ship.
The US delegation exclusively reserved all the cabins on board the vessel for the Olympics, and the ship, with all its amenities and attractions, will become practically a floating US embassy during the Games.
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“What I hope happens is, that if we are fortunate enough to win a gold that it is a big deal instead of the big deal is, if we lose”, said USA coach Geno Auriemma.
