Canada's 3x3 women's basketball team came painfully close to the podium at the Paris Olympics. Emphasis on painful. After 10 gritty games, countless bumps and bruises, and three stitches, the Canadians finished fourth in their Olympic debut.
Canada women's 3x3 basketball team - The Canadian PressPARIS — Canada's 3x3 women's basketball team came painfully close to the podium at the Paris Olympics.After 10 gritty games, countless bumps and bruises, and three stitches, the Canadians finished fourth in their Olympic debut.
The team started 3-1 in round-robin play before suffering back-to-back overtime losses at the hands of Spain and the United States. A decisive win over Australia in a play-in tilt secured Canada's spot in the semifinals. “We thought that every team there deserved to be there," she said."We knew every game was gonna be a grind and a battle, which it was. If you look at any of the scores, all of them were super close. There were so many OT games, so many games that came down to the last shot.”
"But it's so worth it to know that despite going through that, despite putting our heart on the line and giving everything, we're still here, we're still standing and we can get through this. It's just a game at the end of the day.”After years with Canada's senior women's basketball team, Katherine Plouffe and her twin sister, Michelle, decided in 2019 to build Canada's 3x3 program from the ground up.
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