{"id":2837,"date":"2024-08-05T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T18:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympics-basketball-usas-women-start-title-defence-with-big-win-over-japan\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T18:22:46","slug":"olympics-basketball-usas-women-start-title-defence-with-big-win-over-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympics-basketball-usas-women-start-title-defence-with-big-win-over-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics basketball: USA&#8217;s women start title defence with big win over Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The USA women&#8217;s team started their Olympic title defence with a dominant 26-point win over Japan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was a repeat of the Tokyo 2020 final, in which Japan secured their first ever basketball Olympic medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Las Vegas Aces&#8217; A&#8217;ja Wilson registered 24 points of USA&#8217;s 102-76 win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The American squad combined have 15 Olympic gold medals and 18 Fiba Women\u2019s World Cup titles, with all 12 players having either won an Olympic or World Cup gold medal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their victory on Monday means they are on a 56-game unbeaten Olympic streak, having won nine out of the 12 Olympic golds that have been awarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will face Belgium next, on Thursday, before playing Germany for a spot in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/c2v09lwge22o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA women&#8217;s team started their Olympic title defence with a dominant 26-point win over Japan. It was a repeat of the Tokyo 2020 final, in which Japan secured their first ever basketball Olympic medal. Las Vegas Aces&#8217; A&#8217;ja Wilson registered 24 points of USA&#8217;s 102-76 win. The American squad combined have 15 Olympic gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","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\/2837","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=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}