The three opponents of the 3x3 women's basketball team of Azerbaijan, which won a license for the Paris-2024 Summer Olympic Games, in the most prestigious multi-sport competition of the quadrennial are known.
Idman.biz reports that the team consisting of Tiffany Hayes, Alexandra Mollenhauer, Dina Ulyanova and Mercedes Walker was the 4th team to win a license to the Olympics.
Only three teams have already acquired this right. France qualified directly as the host.
Two teams have this right based on the FIBA rating. These are US and Chinese nationals.
Only 8 teams will compete in Paris. The owners of the last 4 places will be known in the next two qualification tournaments. One team in Japan and three teams in Hungary will win tickets to France.
The 3x3 type of basketball was included in the Olympic program for the second time in history. Azerbaijan's national team, which failed to participate in Tokyo-2020, got its wish from the second attempt.
The US national team won in Japan. The Russian Olympic Committee took the 2nd place, and China took the 3rd place. France was satisfied with the 4th place. Japan, Italy, Romania and Mongolia were among the participating countries. At that time, 8 teams played 7 rounds with a round robin system. The 1st-2nd places advanced to the semi-finals, and the 3rd-6th places to the playoffs.
It should be noted that our basketball players also went down in the history of Azerbaijani sports as the first team to qualify for the Olympics in team sports.
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