{"id":20885,"date":"2024-08-08T19:16:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/olympics-paris-2024-usa-thrash-nigeria-to-set-up-australia-womens-basketball-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:16:31","slug":"olympics-paris-2024-usa-thrash-nigeria-to-set-up-australia-womens-basketball-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/olympics-paris-2024-usa-thrash-nigeria-to-set-up-australia-womens-basketball-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics Paris 2024: USA thrash Nigeria to set up Australia women’s basketball semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"


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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.<\/b><\/p>\n

They will face Australia, who beat Serbia 85-67, on Friday with a place in the gold-medal final up for grabs.<\/p>\n

Nigeria became the first African side – male or female – to reach the quarter-finals of an Olympic Games<\/a> by beating Canada in their final group match on Sunday.<\/p>\n

After registering a win on their Olympic debut in Athens in 2004, Nigeria had to wait 20 years for their second victory – beating Australia in their opening pool game on 29 July – but overcoming a vastly experienced USA was a step too far.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The USA started to assert their dominance in the third, opening a 28-point advantage, before wrapping up a comfortable night’s work at Accor Arena.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Friday’s other semi-final will feature hosts France and Belgium after they beat Germany and Spain respectively.<\/p>\n

Marine Johannes was key to France’s 84-71 victory, scoring a game-high 24 points.<\/p>\n

France won silver at London 2012 and bronze at Tokyo 2020 and are looking to complete the set with Olympic gold on home soil.<\/p>\n

Belgium’s women made their Olympic debut in 2020, finishing seventh, but are guaranteed to be competing for a medal in Paris following a 79-66 win against Spain.<\/p>\n

The two losing nations in Friday’s semi-finals will head into the bronze medal match.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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