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BasketballAchievement of Team Lausanne Sport in the finals
Swept by Antwerp for their entry into the running in Abu Dhabi, the troupe of Gilles Martin eliminated the Lithuanians of Sakiai and will play the quarter-finals on Sunday. Bluffing.
Westher Molteni, on the right, was the big man of the Lausanne evening in Abu Dhabi.
FIBA World Tour 3×3
Gilles Martin who scores the decisive free throw and jumps on his comrades. Carlos Martinez, the latest addition to the team, who slashes the air with his fist of rage several times. Badara Top who has never clapped his hands so hard in his life. And then there is Westher Molteni, without whom nothing would have been possible.
Touched by grace behind the arc, author of four award-winning shots, each more monstrous than the next, the 35-year-old from Luganese disgusted the Lithuanians of Sakiai, eliminated in the group stage of the World Tour finals on Saturday, in Abu Dubai. And it’s a nice thunderclap in the world of 3×3.
After the false start earlier in the day against the Belgians of Antwerp (3rd), 7-0 then 21-10, it was necessary to win by more than eleven points against Sakiai. After Molteni, Martinez and Top by far and finally Martin validated the feat of a team which is competing for the meeting of the twelve best teams in the world for the fifth time in six years.
Saturday, in the quarter-finals, the Swiss formation (11th) will challenge the world No 1, the Serbs of Ub (3:45 p.m. local time, or 12:45 p.m. in Switzerland). Facing them, she had no chance at the end of August in the final of the stage disputed in Ouchy. But we want to believe that this group is not close to a feat.
