US women’s hoops looks for seventh consecutive gold medal at Tokyo Olympics

“As far as being named to a fifth Olympics, especially with Sue, you know, it’s just a great honor.

The Americans haven’t dropped an Olympic contest since 1992 when they were beaten in the semis by the Unified Team.

The competition for the other two medals is wide open with Australia, Belgium, France, Canada, Serbia and Spain all having a shot at reaching the podium.

The Olympics switched to three pools of four teams for the Tokyo Games.

Some of the other WNBA players in the Olympics include Emma Meesseman , The WNBA will be on an Olympic break from July 15-Aug.

There are hopes for that to potentially change: Nigeria went 3-4 at the World Champions in 2018, falling to the U.S.

With the addition of 3×3 as a basketball discipline, teams are now only playing potentially six games at most in the tournament instead of eight.

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