With the countdown to Paris 2024 Olympic Games underway, athletes and teams from all disciplines and from all countries are finalizing their preparation for one of the most important sporting events after the 2020 pandemic.
It seems that the “return to normal” has also made some competitions especially exciting.
This is the case of basketball, one of the sports that usually gives us the most surprises at the Olympic events.
And it is that, the last four places for Paris are still up in the airand will be played just three weeks before the opening of the Olympics.
What is the FIBA Men’s Basketball Pre-Olympic 2024 and when is it held?
He Men’s Basketball Pre-Olympic It is a tournament (or rather, a “multitournament“) organized by FIBA and qualifying for the Olympic Games.
will be celebrated from July 2 to 7, 2024 at four locations: Valencia (Spain), Riga (Latvia), Piraeus (Greece) and San Juan (Puerto Rico).
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Participants, venues and development of the Men’s Basketball Pre-Olympic
Do you want to know who will be the participants and the venues for this Men’s Basketball Pre-Olympic?
Who will participate in the Men’s Basketball Pre-Olympic?
In the FIBA World Cup 2023only seven men’s basketball teams achieved qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
These teams are Australia, Japan, South Sudan, Canada, United States, Serbia and Germany.
They are joined by France, which on this occasion has its place secured as host of the event.
However, 24 countries will still have to fight for a spot.
19 of the teams that will be in this final “bid” assured their presence in the pre-Olympic with their performances in the 2023 Basketball World Cup in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia, while the other five are the winners of last summer’s Pre-Olympic Qualification Tournaments.
These selections are:
- Spain
- Italia
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Slovenia
- Montenegro
- Puerto Rico
- Brazil
- Dominican Republic
- Greece
- Georgia
- Egypt
- Finland
- New Zealand
- Lebanon
- Filipinas
- Mexico
- Angola
- Ivory Coast
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Cameroon
- Croatia
- Poland
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How have the 2024 Men’s Basketball Pre-Olympic groups been formed?
The draw for the 2024 Men’s Basketball Pre-Olympic groups was held last November, at a gala that took place at Mies’ Patrick Baumann Basketball House, in Switzerland.
Four seeds were established in a first pot and five more pots to mark the order of the pairings, including the participating teams from best to worst position in the FIBA ranking.
The 24 teams have been divided into 8 groups, made up of 3 teams each.
Each of the venues will host two groups (A and B), that is, six teams.
The selections have been distributed as follows:
Valencia Headquarters
- Group A: Lebanon, Angola and Spain.
- Group B: Finland, Poland and the Bahamas.
Riga Headquarters
- Group A: Georgia, Philippines and Latvia.
- Group B: Brazil, Cameroon and Montenegro.
Piraeus Headquarters
- Group A: Slovenia, New Zealand and Croatia.
- Group B: Egypt, Greece and Dominican Republic.
See of San Juan
- Group A: Mexico, Ivory Coast and Lithuania.
- Group B: Italy, Puerto Rico and Bahrain.
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How will the event develop? Schedule and winners
The operation of the FIBA 2024 Men’s Basketball Pre-Olympic is, basically, a “all against all”.
The most peculiar thing is that each of the venues operates as an independent tournamentin which the three members of each group (remember that there are two groups in each venue) will face each other on July 2, 3 and 4, 2024.
The two best teams from each group will qualify for a final phase with two “cross” semi-finals of a single match (the first classified in Group A against the second classified in Group B, and vice versa) which will be on July 6, and a grand final that will take place on July 7.
The champions of each tournament will obtain the four free places for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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What can we expect from the 2024 Men’s Basketball Pre-Olympic Championship?
The FIBA Men’s Basketball Qualifiers promise to be, above all, a great spectacle.
And even more so if we take into account that Some of the best world basketball teams will participate in the four tournamentsamong them, Spain (current number two in the FIBA ranking), Lithuania, Latvia, Slovenia, Greece, Italy, the Dominican Republic and Montenegro.
Curiously, there will also be room for other teams with less weight in the world rankings, something that, a priori, increases the chances of a surprise.
The Valencia pre-Olympic tournament, in which the Spanish team will participate, will be in the Fountain of San Luis Pavilion of the capital of Turiawith capacity for 9,000 spectators.
The prices of the tickets for the 5 days and the 9 games are:
- Category I: 350 euros
- Category II: 300 euros
- Category III: 260 euros
- Category IV: 220 euros
- Category V: 180 euros
- Category VI: 150 euros
Although Spain starts as a winner, this pre-Olympic is going to be complicated.
Furthermore, the road to the final phase in Paris can be considered a titanic feat, especially if we take into account that The rivals for the Olympic Games will not be known until a few days before the event beginswhich will take place between July 26 and August 11, 2024.
Even so, the Spaniards will fight hard to aspire to the fifth Olympic medal in Spanish men’s basketball after the silver achieved in Los Angeles 1984, Beijing 2008 and London 2012, and the bronze in Rio 2016.
2024-01-25 17:08:08
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