Australia’s males loved an encouraging begin to their Olympic basketball marketing campaign with a 92-80 win over Spain in a feisty encounter that threatened to boil over on the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Lille.
Led by Jock Landale with 20 factors, veteran Patty Mills (19) and Josh Giddey (17), the Boomers began strongly to get one over their rivals in Group A, which additionally accommodates Canada and Greece and has been dubbed the ‘group of dying’.
Giddey gave the Chicago Bulls a glimpse of what they’re getting subsequent NBA season as he additionally weighed in with eight rebounds and eight assists. However tempers flared within the first quarter when Josh Inexperienced and Usman Garuba exchanged phrases earlier than a little bit of push and shove prompted plenty of Australian gamers to hurry in.
The Boomers subsequent meet Canada on Tuesday.
There was heartbreak within the diving pool as Maddison Keeney and Anabelle Smith narrowly missed out on a medal within the girls’s 3m synchronised occasion, which might have been Australia’s first look on the rostrum at these Video games.
The pair had received bronze in Rio and had been effectively positioned going into the ultimate spherical. Whereas eventual Chinese language gold medallists of Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen had been clear in first, the Australians had been vying for second place with the American pair of Kassidy Cook dinner and Sarah Bacon with one dive left.
Nevertheless, the pair struggled to execute the ahead two-and-a-half somersault, one-twist mixture after Smith botched her launch, skewing off the board at a 45-degree angle. They had been consoled by their coaches upon leaving the pool and led to fifth.
“I made a mistake on the final dive and we had been most likely within the sizzling seat to win a medal,” Smith advised Channel 9. “I’m simply attempting to remind myself that our whole synchro profession collectively just isn’t outlined by this second. It’s very disappointing to overlook out on the medal, however that’s life, we’re good, we’re wholesome, we’ll transfer on.”
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