- Team USA ease to comprehensive 79-55 quarter-final win
- Brittney Griner and Breanna Stewart potent offensively
The United States have drawn first blood in the first of three encounters with Australia across two sports at the Tokyo Games this week. Team USA’s historic unbeaten streak in women’s Olympic basketball continued on Wednesday, as the Americans eased past the Opals in their quarter-final clash.
The defending champions have won the past five Olympic gold medals and have not lost in over 50 matches at the Games, while the Australians only narrowly qualified for the knock-out round after losing their opening two matches in Tokyo. The Opals are three-time Olympic silver medallists, but have now failed to progress to the medal rounds on two consecutive occasions.
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