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Despite starting Olympic play 0-3, USA Basketball women’s 3×3 team is advancing to the semi-finals and will contend for a medal, an improbably comeback led by Hailey Van Lith, Dearica Hamby, Cierra Burdick, and Rhyne Howard.
When the U.S. women’s 3×3 basketball team fell to 0-3 in pool play, repeating as Olympic gold medalists seemed like a pipe dream. It appeared that a lack of chemistry and experience would prove insurmountable, and that USA Basketball’s selection decisions may have been off the mark.
Let’s be real: if you win any medal at the Olympics (regardless of the event), you’ve done something special. Accomplishing this feat means you’re one of the top three people on the WHOLE PLANET at what you do.
By that standard, the United States track and field team members should be thrilled to have bagged two more silver medals (and a bronze for good measure) for their nation in Paris. But that enjoyment will be mingled with grief, because they came agonizingly close to winning a pair of golds.
It first started with the mixed 4×400 relay team.
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Of course, emotions run high during the Olympic Games. But according to one referee, A’Ja Wilson went a little bit overboard.
The Team USA basketball star said an official warned her to tone it down during Team USA’s win over Belgium on Thursday night.
“(He said) I need to, get my emotions in check, and I think that just heightened my emotions even more because I’m like, ‘How are you going to tell me at my job that I can’t show emotion, passion?’” Wilson said.
“So I keep my cool. I continue being me.