The USA continue their charge for an eighth successive women's basketball Olympic gold medal by beating Nigeria 88-74 to reach the semi-finals.
The United States continued their charge for an eighth successive women's basketball Olympic gold medal by beating Nigeria 88-74 to reach the semi-finals.
The team known as D’Tigress trailed the USA by nine points at the end of the first quarter, but that deficit swelled to 19 by the end of the second. Since women's basketball made its debut at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the USA have won nine of a possible 12 gold medals.
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