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The basketball competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, were held from 27 July to 11 August 2024. [1] Preliminary 5x5 basketball matches occurred at Stade Pierre-Mauroy in Lille, with the final phase staged at the Bercy Arena (not referred to as the Accor Arena due to IOC rules disallowing Olympic host venues to be named after corporate sponsors) in Paris.
The France men's national basketball team (French: Équipe de France de basketball) represents France in international basketball and is administered by the French Federation of Basketball. France is currently ranked fourth in the FIBA World Ranking. [2] France has been a regular at the EuroBasket, qualifying for 39 appearances all-time.
Li Nan (Chinese: 李楠; pinyin: Lí Nǎn, born September 25, 1974, in Harbin, Heilongjiang) is a former professional basketball player from China. Before his retirement in 2009, he played for the Bayi Rockets, a Chinese Basketball Association team based in Ningbo, Zhejiang. As a small forward, he is 1.98 m (6'6") tall and weighs 104 kg (230 ...
Olympics basketball games today: Men's medal events Saturday, August 10. Men's bronze medal final: Germany vs. Serbia: 5:30 a.m. ET on USA Network, Peacock and NBCOlympics.com. Men's gold medal ...
France's Victor Wembanyama celebrates in the last minute in the men's quarterfinal basketball match between France and Canada during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris on ...
The U.S. men’s basketball team defeated host country France on Saturday for its fifth straight Olympic gold medal, 98-87. But the French didn’t make it easy.
China has traditionally been the basketball powerhouse in Asia and won the FIBA Asia Cup 14 out of 16 times between 1975 and 2005. At the 1984 Summer Olympics basketball tournament , the Chinese made their debut, starting a streak of nine qualifications in a row.
Yao first played for China in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and he was dubbed, together with 7 ft (2.1 m) teammates Wang Zhizhi and Mengke Bateer, "the Walking Great Wall". [126] During the 2004 Athens Olympics , Yao carried the Chinese flag during the opening ceremony , which he said was a "long dream come true". [ 127 ]