The leyends Penny Taylor y Carmelo Anthony will be in charge of conducting the women’s and men’s Olympic draw for Paris 2024 in a ceremony that will take place this March 19 at 7:00 p.m. in The Patrick Baumann House of Basketball and which can be followed live on the official FIBA YouTube channel. Several Unicaja players (Ejim, Alberto Díaz or Kendrick Perry) they can be in the Olympic Gameseither because they already have the ticket, like the Canadian, or because they will fight to attend the Pre-Olympic, like the Spanish and the Montenegrin with a passport.
A draw that will mark the roadmap towards the long-awaited Olympic gold (July 28-August 11) in which each match takes on vital importance in another tournament in which FIBA continues to prioritize the health and well-being of the players, reducing, from the Windows cycle, the number of matches to win a medal and shortening the preparation phases.
This will be the men’s draw
The draw will have 12 participants (South Sudan, Canada, USA, Japan, France, Germany, Serbia and Australia) and the last four tickets that will come out of the four pre-Olympic tournaments that will be held from July 2 to 7 in Piraeus (Greece), Riga (Latvia), San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Valencia (Spain).
The participants will be divided into four pots of three teams and will be ‘seeded’ by the United States, current Olympic champion and No. 1 in the FIBA ranking, Germany, current champion of the FIBA World Cup and No. 3 in the ranking, and the winner of the Pre-Olympic Tournament. which will be held in Valencia and which has Spain as current number 2 in the FIBA ranking.
The pots of the draw are established as follows
· Bomb 1: United States, Winner of the Pre-Olympic Games of Spain and Germany
· Bomb 2: Serbia, Australia and Latvia Pre-Olympic Winner
· Bomb 3: Canada, France and Winner of the Puerto Rico Pre-Olympic
· Bomb 4: Winner of the Pre-Olympic Games of Greece, Japan and South Sudan
The draw will decide the three Olympic groups with a limitation: there will be a minimum of two European teams per group and a maximum of three and there will not be a representative from the Africa, America, Asia and Oceania Zone in the same group.
This will be the women’s draw
The 12 participants who have been placed in four pots of three teams based on the FIBA ranking are already known and in the three final groups of the Games there will be a minimum of one European team and a maximum of two while there will not be more than one representative Africa, America, Asia and Oceania zone:
· Pot 1: USA, China and Australia
· Pot 2: Spain, Canada and Belgium
· Pot 3: France, Japan and Serbia
· Pot 4: Puerto Rico, Nigeria and Germany
What will the tournament format of the Games be like?
Three groups (A, B, C) of four teams. After the first phase of three matches, the two best in each group and the two best third parties qualify for the final phase. The remaining four finish their participation.
There will be a draw for the quarterfinals and the 8 teams will be divided into four pots of two teams based on the results obtained in the first phase. The two best teams of the first phase will form pot D, the 3rd and 4th make up pot E, the 5th and 6th make up pot F and the 7th and 8th make up pot G. The teams from D will cross with those from G, those from E with F and teams that already met in the first phase will not be able to face each other.
The four winners will meet in the semis in a table in which the teams in group D will go on different sides. The losers of the quarterfinals will end their participation and the final classification from 5th to 8th will be made based on the FIBA ranking.
2024-03-18 12:37:40
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