As the U.S. women's basketball team plays its Olympic opener against Japan, expectations are high. The U.S. has won the last 7 gold medals, and hasn’t lost at the Olympics in most players' lifetimes.
As the U.S. women's basketball team plays its Olympic opener against Japan, expectations are high. The U.S. has won the last 7 gold medals, and hasn’t lost at the Olympics in most players' lifetimes.United States' Diana Taurasi drives around Germany's Leonie Fiebich during a women's exhibition basketball game between the United States and Germany in London on July 23, 2024.
“We’re standing on this amazing culture that was built a long, long time ago. So I think we’re aware of that,” Reeve told reporters in London last week, after winning an exhibition game against Germany there, 84 to 57. “But I think it’s also really important that this journey is unique and special to this group. This is our first experience together.”
“I’m not going to the Olympics as a farewell tour. I’m going trying to win a gold medal with my teammates. That’s the only reason I play basketball,” she told NPR. “So I feel just the same as my first one. My back’s a little more sore though!” “You do have some of these newer fans coming out and saying, ‘Well if they lose, it’s because Caitlin Clark wasn’t on this team,’” says Lindsey Darvin, a sports management professor at Syracuse University. “But that definitely would not be the case.”Darvin says Clark is fresh out of college, has only played half a WNBA season, and “just isn’t one of the top 12 players in the U.S. yet.”
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