{"id":2693,"date":"2024-08-02T17:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T17:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympics-basketball-usa-beat-south-sudan-to-make-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T17:34:42","slug":"olympics-basketball-usa-beat-south-sudan-to-make-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympics-basketball-usa-beat-south-sudan-to-make-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics basketball: USA beat South Sudan to make quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The United States&#8217; quest for a fifth straight Olympic gold medal remains on track after securing a place in the quarter-finals with a win over South Sudan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bright Stars, 33rd in the world rankings, were no match for the 16-time champions and were defeated 103-86 at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">USA led from the first quarter and never looked back, with Miami Heat&#8217;s Bam Adebayo registering a team-high 18 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For South Sudan, Nuni Omot led the way with a game-high 24 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But although entertaining, this match was by no means as dramatic as when the two nations met earlier this month for an Olympic warm-up game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cn387l5500lo#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20came%20from,game%20at%20the%20O2%20Arena.\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">United States had to come from 16 points down<\/a> that night to avoid one of the biggest shocks in basketball history as they edged a 101-100 victory in London. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/c2e40zpy2p8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States&#8217; quest for a fifth straight Olympic gold medal remains on track after securing a place in the quarter-finals with a win over South Sudan. The Bright Stars, 33rd in the world rankings, were no match for the 16-time champions and were defeated 103-86 at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium. USA led from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}