Both the men’s and women’s competition will have three groups of four teams, where the top two finishers and the two best third-place teams will advance to the quarterfinals.
USA's Kevin Wayne Durant celebrates with the flag of the USA after their victory in the men's final basketball match between France and USA during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama on August 7, 2021.We are 126 days from the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, which will be held on July 26.
Athletes from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete in the Paris Olympics, but only as neutral athletes and not as representatives of their countries as a measure the International Olympic Committee imposed following the invasion of Ukraine. “This is, of course, the destruction of the idea of Olympism. This is an infringement on the interests of Olympic athletes,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to an ESPN article. “Of course, this is absolutely contrary to the entire ideology of the Olympic movement, and this does not paint the IOC in a good light.”
One alternative was to build a brand-new stadium that would cost more than $2 billion, but that plan was also rejected.
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