Countries gear up for mouthwatering Olympic challenges after draw
TOKYO (Japan) - The United States women are gunning for a seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal this summer in Tokyo and there aren t many pundits that will be betting against them.
Even so, after this week s draw at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball, which pitted the Americans against a Nigeria team they beat by just five points at the FIBA Women s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade one year ago, against a French team that is No. 5 in the FIBA World Ranking, Presented by Nike, and against No. 10 Japan, who are hosts, a seventh consecutive gold may not be so straightforward.