Wings star guard Arike Ogunbowale said she withdrew her name from the Olympics player pool 'months ago' after getting the sense she would not be picked.
Michael Voepel covers the WNBA, women's college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women's basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.in an episode released Thursday that she took her name out of the pool for the U.S. women's basketball Olympic team"months ago" and that she thinks"politics" goes into the selection of the squad.
"The committees say they look for people who ... I don't know, honestly. But I could already tell. I actually took my name out of the pool months ago. With the pool, it's a big commitment. If I know they're not picking me, I'm not going to keep going to these when I know the vibe. I'm not going to give you my time if I know the vibe."
"I can't really speak to USA Basketball in general," Ogunbowale said."But just when I think of women's basketball ... politics is always surrounding it. Whether that's USA Basketball, All-Star teams, first team, there's politics. There's politics in everything."
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