{"id":317889,"date":"2021-08-07T10:53:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T07:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/us-womens-basketball-team-seeking-seventh-straight-gold\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T10:53:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T07:53:03","slug":"us-womens-basketball-team-seeking-seventh-straight-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-womens-basketball-team-seeking-seventh-straight-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"#US women&#8217;s basketball team seeking seventh straight gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40715d6eb72\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40715d6eb72\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-womens-basketball-team-seeking-seventh-straight-gold\/#Follow_all_the_2020_Olympics_action\" >Follow all the 2020 Olympics action<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#US women&#8217;s basketball team seeking seventh straight gold<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The U.S. women\u2019s basketball team has earned the chance to match a historic hoops accomplishment not achieved at the Olympics since their male counterparts pulled off the feat more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. squad can win its seventh consecutive gold medal in women\u2019s basketball in the championship <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> Sunday morning (which will be 10:30 p.m. EDT on Saturday night) against host nation Japan. The American men previously copped seven consecutive golds, from 1936 in Berlin through the 1968 Games in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is exactly where we want to be, so now everything is on the line,\u201d former Connecticut star Breanna Stewart said after a 79-59 semifinal win over Serbia on Friday. \u201cRight now there is so much pressure going for seven straight, that you kind of get lost in what\u2019s actually h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening and not enjoying being at the Olympics, and I think we did that. We came out and we had fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"781\" alt=\"Sue Bird (left) and Diana Taurasi are both going for their fifth gold medals in Olympic women's basketball.\" class=\"wp-image-19056430 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bird.Taurasi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bird.Taurasi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bird.Taurasi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bird.Taurasi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Bird.Taurasi.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1574 1574w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Sue Bird (left) and Diana Taurasi are both going for their fifth gold medals in Olympic women\u2019s basketball.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>U.S. coach Dawn Staley, the former WNBA star and basketball Hall of Famer who now coaches at South Carolina, believes losing two pre-Olympic exhibition games in Las Vegas in July \u2014 one against a team of WNBA stars and another against the Australian national team \u2014 served as a wake-up call for her star-laden squad, which features six first-time Olympians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at what took place from the beginning of the month to where we are now, and the progression that\u2019s taken place, we find ourselves where we wanted to be,\u201d Staley said Friday on a Zoom call. \u201cNo matter how hard it was to swallow dropping those two games in Vegas, which seems like a long, long time ago, to be competing for a gold medal is rewarding. But we still have to get the job done.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Follow_all_the_2020_Olympics_action\"><\/span>Follow all the 2020 Olympics action<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\u201cI just feel like once we hit the quarterfinals, our players really looked different. There\u2019s a different focus. There\u2019s a different dynamic for this. That is, we don\u2019t want to lose. We\u2019re here. We wanted to compete for a gold medal, and if we don\u2019t win, we don\u2019t do that. \u2026 That\u2019s what the moment takes on when you\u2019re competing for a gold medal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American women have won 54 consecutive Olympic contests, beginning with a bronze-medal victory over Cuba in 1992 in Barcelona, following their most-recent defeat in the semifinals against the Unified Team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegacy. It\u2019s a standard that USA Basketball has set,\u201d point guard Chelsea Gray said via Zoom following the team\u2019s rematch win over Australia in the quarterfinals. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of great people who have come through this program, some that are still playing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s definitely a legacy, a standard that is set, and achieving excellence. That\u2019s the level we have to play at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Longtime star guards and former UConn teammates Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird, a Long Island product, would earn their fifth consecutive gold medals with a win over Japan. The 39-year-old Taurasi, who was hampered by a hip injury in Friday\u2019s win over Serbia, and the 40-year-old Bird were teammates with Staley on the gold-winning 2004 U.S. team in Athens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody here wants to win gold for them, for us, for everybody that started this streak and got us here,\u201d Brittney Griner said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all aware of it,\u201d Stewart added. \u201cSue and D, what they\u2019ve done for USA Basketball is extremely special. The fact they\u2019re going for five straight golds is insane, and the rest of us, we want to make sure we put them in the best possible position to get that gold.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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