The U.S. will enter the Paris Olympics as the overwhelming favorites to win its eighth straight gold medal dating from the 1996 Games.
Updated: 17 minutes agoA'ja Wilson , of Team USA, drives past Dearica Hamby, front right, of Team WNBA, during the first half of a WNBA All-Star basketball game Saturday, July 20, 2024, in Phoenix. Since the Olympics added a women’s basketball tournament in 1976, the U.S. team has won nine gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal. The only time the American women didn’t medal: 1980, when the United States boycotted the Games in Moscow.
The knockout round will include the quarterfinals Aug. 7, the semifinals Aug. 9, and the gold and bronze medal games Aug. 11. All knockout round games will be played at Paris’s Accor Arena, which has hosted NBA regular season games and typically seats 15,000 fans for basketball. The arena is located roughly five miles southeast of major Paris landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe.
With an unmatched talent pool and a rich tradition of winning, anything short of gold would be calamitous for a program that has enjoyed structural advantages over its international competitors for decades. Griner, a 6-foot-9 center, will compete on the Olympic stage for the first time since she was imprisoned in Russia for 10 months before being released as part of a 2022 prisoner swap.
Rizzotti added that Clark’s popularity and box office appeal weren’t within “the purview of the committee,” which instead weighed “positions, depth, versatility and style of play.” Clark was also significantly younger than all 12 of the players who were selected.
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