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Eight victories in nine games over the past six months, and a best-ever No. 4 world ranking.

Because Japan, the fourth team in Canada's pool, has an automatic Olympic berth as host, the Canadians need only to finish ahead of either Belgium or Sweden to be Tokyo-bound. Women's professional leagues shut down during the qualifying periods, and so Thomaidis has all of her stars in Belgium including WNBA standouts Kia Nurse and Natalie Achonwa."And so we would sometimes go years without seeing our players who are in the WNBA," Thomaidis said."So this is a pretty nice way to still be in contact with them, and work with them, and have that cohesion developing throughout the course of a number of years.

 

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