2024-08-07 22:26:20
David against Goliath! An earthen pot instead of an iron pot! Whatever the expression, in the end it was the American basketball players who won. Between Nigerians and Uncle Sam’s girls, in the quarterfinals of the Paris Games basketball tournament, Arena Bercy has chosen its team on Thursday evening. That of Little Thumb, in white and green, the first representative of an African country in this stage of the competition against the American red ogre who has not known defeat in this competition for a long time. Long time !
And I am talking to you about a time that those under the age of 32 cannot know. It was in 1992, during the Barcelona Games (Spain). A generation ago! Alice, 30, who came to watch the game with her family laughed: “Damn, I’m not even born yet. Jean-Luc, his father said: “And I am 28 years old. Surprised? “Not really,” continued Alice, herself a basketball player. Their university education is high, more of them are at the highest level. ” Also, the speaker set the tone, right after the presentation of the Nigerian team. “At the front, it has to be very, very, very heavy,” he emphasized when announcing Team USA.
Diana Taurasi, former five-time Olympic champion
With as the symbol of this American archi-government, number 12, Diana Taurasi, five-time Olympic champion and also on the field. In other words, the 42-year-old has won every gold medal in women’s basketball since the Athens Games in 2004. Dizzying!
So clearly, more or less “USA, USA”. But instead of loud applause when the green and white jersey scores. Or cries of anger when the capricious ball flirts with the circle. “We can always hope for a miracle,” smiled Thibault, 43, who changed his tricolor shirt from the France-Germany game (won 84-71 by the Blues) for an American shirt. We know that with America, we are not looking for suspicion. But for the show. “
Faster, more agile, more aggressive, at half-time basketball players to cross the Atlantic already led 52-33. Alexandre said, who came from Moulins (Alliers) to attend the match with Garance, his 15-year-old daughter: “Americans are rude. They are not true. Face with them, when you get a silver medal, if you are an Olympic champion in the normal world. »
When the Americans last lost in the Olympic Games, in 1992, the USSR was no more. And Vladimir Putin’s Russia does not yet exist. It is the CIS, for the Commonwealth of Independent States, which gives them access to gold.
The final score was 88 to 74. Small, the Nigerians lost with a difference of less than 15 points while the American score was a total of 20 points. Bercy Arena can stand up and African players can smile. Honor is safe. And the Americans continued their Olympic adventure in the semi-finals in Paris with their 58th victory in a row.
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