{"id":160925,"date":"2021-07-05T07:56:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=160925"},"modified":"2021-07-05T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:56:16","slug":"italy-quenches-dominican-hopes-to-play-basketball-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/07\/05\/italy-quenches-dominican-hopes-to-play-basketball-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy terminates Dominican hopes to play basketball in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Italy-vs-RD-FIBA-Basketball.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Italy-vs-RD-FIBA-Basketball.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Italy-vs-RD-FIBA-Basketball-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Italy beat the Dominican Republic 79-59 in the first semi-finals in the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament taking place in Belgrade, Serbia. The DR had already lost to Serbia in the quest for a spot in the 12-team Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Italy led by 20 points towards the end of the third quarter (64-44) and never looked back<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/oqt\/serbia\/2020\/news\/italy-stifle-dominican-republic-to-earn-olympic-shot-in-oqt-final\">FIBA <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 July 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy beat the Dominican Republic 79-59 in the first semi-finals in the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament taking place in Belgrade, Serbia. The DR had already lost to Serbia in the quest for a spot in the 12-team Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Italy led by 20 points towards the end of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/07\/05\/italy-quenches-dominican-hopes-to-play-basketball-in-tokyo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161006,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160925\/revisions\/161006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}