Posted on 06/08/2024 6:31:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark will reportedly not make the final 12-player USA women's basketball team for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, according to USA Today's Christine Brennan and The Athletic.
Here is what the expected roster will look like, which will be led by Cheryl Reeve, Minnesota Lynx head coach and president of basketball operations.
Kahleah Copper Chelsea Gray A'ja Wilson Breanna Stewart Diana Taurasi Brittney Griner Alyssa Thomas Napheesa Collier Jewell Loyd Kelsey Plum Jackie Young Sabrina Ionescu
The final Olympic roster isn't only Reeves' call. A committee that includes three women's college basketball coaches — Dawn Staley, Seimone Augustus, Delisha Milton-Jones — as well as Jennifer Rizzotti, president of the Connecticut Sun and head coach of the U.S. women's 3-on-3 Olympic team, and WNBA head of league operations Bethany Donaphin made the decision.
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This includes South Carolina coach and former U.S. coach Dawn Staley, LSU assistant Seimone Augustus, Old Dominion coach Delisha Milton-Jones, Connecticut Sun president Jennifer Rizzotti and WNBA head of league operations Bethany Donaphin.
Most of them are lesbians. NBC will lose millions.
The WNBA is losing viewers and fans. The question is will Caitlin Clark be able to stick her finger in the dike?
Details at 11.
You do realize this before the rules were changed to allow professional athletes to compete in the Olympics. It was all amateur athletics at the college level. The amateur athlete concept has been totally destroyed. Your argument makes no sense whatsoever, nor does anybody else is concerning who plays in the Olympics.
No professional athletes whatsoever should be playing in the Olympics but evidently we can’t go back and change things. That’s why I have no use for the Olympics. The true amateur is gone.
What makes no sense is complaining about something you say you have no time for, why waste your time and energy typing a response, obviously you do care because you responded but made it negative as well
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