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Is Sue Bird one of the greatest Jewish athletes of all time? Perhaps.
The basketball legend has won gold medals with the US women’s basketball team in the last four yes, four Olympics. (The team has not lost at the games since 1992.) Bird, now 40, is back for her fifth, and likely last, Olympics.
US athlete Sue Bird, right, is defended during the first half of a women’s exhibition basketball game against Canada in Bridgeport, Conn., in this Friday, July 29, 2016, file photo. Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi will try and become the first five-time Olympic gold medalists in basketball as they lead the US women’s team at the Tokyo Games. (AP/Jessica Hill)
Ostracism has long been an ancient form of punishment. Stories from the Bible tell of ostracism, which was also used democratically in antiquity by the Greeks.