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HermanG said:
Actually the main reason is your college sport culture is far superior to that of any other country.

Another thing is that womens basketball leagues are still amateur leagues in most countries.Would maybe be in the US had NBA not subsidized and promoted WNBA.
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Why do you think our college sport culture is far superior of any other country? (not as in what is evidence of that but what is the reasoning of that?)
 
Step-Back Lauri said:
@HermanG already told the actual reasons, but I gotta say you're message was somewhat disrespective and based on some bad misperceptions. Especially western, middle and northern Europe are very advanced in equal rights between genders, and women in work-life and sports is very much encouraged and supported. Of course there's still millions of women around the world that have it much worse.
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Ya thats is why my reasoning was not posted confidently and i finished it with "maybe that has nothing to do with anything. IDK" But ya i was mostly thinking of countries in the middle east and whatnot. I wonder if women play much basketball in comparison to men in places like iran. I watched womens beach volleyball and there were a couple of teams whose competitors were covered from head to toe. For beach volleyball.
 
fishonjazz said:
France gave the US women quite a fight but the US pulled out the win. The center for the US (she wears one long leg sleeve on one leg) was dominant. Also, this game was quite physical. So france is down 3 with the ball and like 5 seconds left. France shoots and makes a two pointer with 1 second left to lose by 1. WTF?
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No comments about this part of my post? (I thought it was the most interesting, and relevant and would be discussed the most tbh)
 
fishonjazz said:
Ya thats is why my reasoning was not posted confidently and i finished it with "maybe that has nothing to do with anything. IDK" But ya i was mostly thinking of countries in the middle east and whatnot. I wonder if women play much basketball in comparison to men in places like iran. I watched womens beach volleyball and there were a couple of teams whose competitors were covered from head to toe. For beach volleyball.
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I mean yeah,you're absolutely right on how especially Middle East is a big dark spot for both women's rights many other human rights too. And when there's nations with better equal rights in developing countries, the money comes into play quite a lot, affecting everyone, but of course more on women, as per usual, men's sports universally seems to be more sponsored and of course, gains more audience.

The US school system with stipendiates, extreme competitiveness etc. really is a breeding ground for such a number of great athletes in many sports. I guess other nations could try replicate it, but that kind of culture isn't easy to launch off. You'd also had to get spectators coming in, sponsors etc. I think it won't ever come to that in the scale of US.
 
hgb said:
Most other countries don't really have college sports.
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Huh, I had no idea.

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fishonjazz said:
No comments about this part of my post? (I thought it was the most interesting, and relevant and would be discussed the most tbh)
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Yeah,the game was exciting. The last minutes had many tipping points. First, France failed to challenge obvious bad call and didn't get the ball. On the possession US got,they scored 58-55 lead with a ball bouncing in off from the top of the board, lol.

The two airballed threes in last minute or so is what really killed France. They had been defending so aggressively they just obviously was pretty badly gassed out.

IDK why Marine Johannes didn't take the last shot. She had few seconds to dribble it closer to the 3pt line and try her luck. Ofc, if that Williams 2pt was a 3pt, none of this would matter as much, bc it would had gone to OT
 
Step-Back Lauri said:
Yeah,the game was exciting. The last minutes had many tipping points. First, France failed to challenge obvious bad call and didn't get the ball. On the possession US got,they scored 58-55 lead with a ball bouncing in off from the top of the board, lol.

The two airballed threes in last minute or so is what really killed France. They had been defending so aggressively they just obviously was pretty badly gassed out.

IDK why Marine Johannes didn't take the last shot. She had few seconds to dribble it closer to the 3pt line and try her luck. Ofc, if that Williams 2pt was a 3pt, none of this would matter as much, bc it would had gone to OT
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Thanks for the summary. I watched all of the 3rd quarter and a little of the 4th but had to get back to work so I watched the play by play on ESPN for the rest of the 4th quarter.

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fishonjazz said:
France gave the US women quite a fight but the US pulled out the win. The center for the US (she wears one long leg sleeve on one leg) was dominant. Also, this game was quite physical. So france is down 3 with the ball and like 5 seconds left. France shoots and makes a two pointer with 1 second left to lose by 1. WTF?
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Foot just over the line by a few inches. Not quite a Kevin Durant reprise (a more hectic situation for Gabby Williams than for Durant), but France is surely in the "if only ..." mode now.
 
I haven't watched _that_ much, but it's generally been incredibly impressive. The whole fact that almost all of it has been in the (amazing) city of Paris and the generally incredible high quality of the audience has just been great. Hard to improve on for sure.
 
USA won 40 gold medals which tied China for the most in these olympics.
USA finished with 126 total medals and China was second with 91.

Nice
 
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