MANILA: South Sudan and Japan both qualified for the Paris Olympics at the Basketball World Cup on Saturday (Sep 2) as the tournament's highest-placed finishers from Africa and Asia. World Cup debutants South Sudan, who played their first official international game only six years ago, beat Angola 101-78 i
MANILA: South Sudan and Japan both qualified for the Paris Olympics at the Basketball World Cup on Saturday as the tournament's highest-placed finishers from Africa and Asia.
The country has lurched from one crisis to another since winning independence in 2011 but the team's World Cup performances have captured the public's imagination, with crowds gathering to watch on giant screens in the capital Juba. They pulled off a historic win when they beat basketball-obsessed China in their second game, before downing the Philippines in the classification stage.
"For us to be able to do it for the first time as a country really means a lot and that's why we were fighting so hard to be able to get that opportunity." They came from behind late to beat both Finland and Venezuela and head coach Tom Hovasse said they had"gained the respect of our opponents".
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