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Men's Basketball FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualification Tournaments 2023


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Can't believe GB decided not to take up their place in the pre-qualification tournament.:facepalm:

 

OK, they were unlikely to qualify, but let's be honest, they don't get a huge amount of international competition so how do they hope to improve if they're not even going to bother trying.

 

UK Sport (so basically UK taxpayers) awarded GB Basketball 1.3 million for this Olympic cycle as part of their Paris Pathway program - but where has the money gone? We've seen nothing from the 3x3 squads despite the success and excitement that they generated during last year's Commonwealth Games and now they don't even want to try to qualify the men's team for Paris. It's smacks of pretty poor management within the sport but then again, basketball is not alone in that respect in UK sport right now. 

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6 hours ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Can't believe GB decided not to take up their place in the pre-qualification tournament.:facepalm:

 

OK, they were unlikely to qualify, but let's be honest, they don't get a huge amount of international competition so how do they hope to improve if they're not even going to bother trying.

 

UK Sport (so basically UK taxpayers) awarded GB Basketball 1.3 million for this Olympic cycle as part of their Paris Pathway program - but where has the money gone? We've seen nothing from the 3x3 squads despite the success and excitement that they generated during last year's Commonwealth Games and now they don't even want to try to qualify the men's team for Paris. It's smacks of pretty poor management within the sport but then again, basketball is not alone in that respect in UK sport right now. 

It seems to me like that 1.3 mill has gone entirely to the women's main team, the other 3 have just been completed snubbed and disregarded. Obviously they have the best chance of qualifying (a decent shot at that) but to take the opportunity away from at least one other team to prioritise them is completely uncalled for. This is yet another example of our ego getting the better of by not allowing our team to potentially fail at qualifying and get experience from it just so that we can look better in front of the public   

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6 minutes ago, Cinnamon Bun said:

It seems to me like that 1.3 mill has gone entirely to the women's main team, the other 3 have just been completed snubbed and disregarded. Obviously they have the best chance of qualifying (a decent shot at that) but to take the opportunity away from at least one other team to prioritise them is completely uncalled for. This is yet another example of our ego getting the better of by not allowing our team to potentially fail at qualifying and get experience from it just so that we can look better in front of the public   

Yay,women's sports hurrah,lol,it's either it deserves to die ala ''trans rights'' or ignore the men,there's no inbetween,lol 

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