China has outlasted Australia to earn a place in the gold medal game at the FIBA Women’s World Cup in Sydney in front of a roaring crowd of 11,916 fans.
The Australian Opals face a nervous wait in their last group game of the FIBA Women’s World Cup in Sydney after a rousing 75-72 win over Canada on Monday night.
Playing with Team USA gives superstar Breanna Stewart a daily reminder her teammate and friend Brittney Griner continues to be detained in Russia and she is leading calls to bring the star centre home.
The Opals know their World Cup quarter-final hopes will go down to the wire,but a win over Serbia on Sunday in what is sure to be a physical contest will be pivotal to their hopes of competing for a medal.
The Australian Opals have fallen to France in their opening game of the FIBA Women’s World Cup on Thursday night.
Sami Whitcomb chose to be an Australian and she can’t wait to stand tall for her nation at the FIBA Women’s World Cup starting on Thursday night.
The Los Angeles Sparks hit a skid following Cambage’s departure last month and failed to make the play-offs,which begin this week.
The US secretary of state declined to characterise how Moscow has reacted to the American proposal for the detainees,which he said had President Joe Biden’s sign-off.
Liz Cambage’s basketball career is in limbo after she left WNBA side Los Angeles Sparks with nine games left in the season.
Adding to the challenge the Biden administration faces. Brittany Griner’s coach has questioned whether things would be different if the Olympian on trial in Moscow was a male basketball star.
Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty to the drugs charge but denied she had intentionally broken the law.