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The Spanish basketball team already knows its roadmap in case it achieves a ticket for the Paris Olympic Games. Sergio Scariolo’s team, which has yet to qualify for the Pre-Olympic Championship that will be held at the Fuente de San Luis in Valencia between July 2 and 7, would have a tough group stage if it were finally in the French capital.
The Family would face Canada, a team led by NBA stars such as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Dwight Powell that kept them out of the knockout phase of the last World Cup and was third in the tournament after defeating the United States; Australia, bronze in Tokyo and the team from which Spain snatched that same medal five years earlier, in Rio de Janeiro; and the winner of the pre-Olympic tournament to be held in Athens, in which Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Greece and Luka Doncic’s Slovenia start as big favorites.
In any case, before thinking about Paris, Spain will have to put on its overalls to ensure its participation in the Games. They will have the environmental factor in the Fuente de San Luis to overcome an affordable initial phase, in which they share a group with Lebanon and Angola, and above all the hypothetical semi-final and final in which they could face off against the teams from the other group. : Finland, with Lauri Markkanen as a reference, Poland and Bahamas, very unknown but with a lot of NBA reinforcement.
In the Olympic draw, held at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Switzerland with Carmelo Anthony and Penny Taylor as innocent hands, the women’s team has fared better, having already achieved its place in the Pre-Olympic Games held in February in Sopron (Hungary), in which they lost to Japan in the first match but turned the corner with victories against Canada and host Hungary. At the Games, Spain will face Serbia, China and Puerto Rico on the way to the quarterfinal round.
