2024-04-17 10:32:03
Purposeful expansion of the team’s core and still bright performance of the leaders at a crucial moment gave the Latvian 3×3 basketball team a push to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games tournament at the first attempt. The first place won in the eight-team competition in Hong Kong provided the Latvians not only with a ticket to Paris, but also with additional time to better prepare for the most important start of the quadrennial. “We will try to make the most of it,” coach Raimonds Feldmanis promised.
In almost one breath, the team won its preliminary group, where only Mongolia (21:16) needed a little swing, but New Zealand (21:10) and Egypt (21:12) could not show considerable resistance to the Latvian quartet. Even before the tournament, it was fairly certain that the main competitors in the fight for the only ticket would be the Dutch basketball players, with whom they already crossed paths in the semi-finals. “We threw, they threw. It was lucky that we were the last to throw,” Latvian national team captain Agnis Čavars succinctly described the nerve-wracking final. At the end of the basic period and
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2024-04-17 10:32:03