{"id":33262,"date":"2012-07-09T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dr-fails-to-make-the-olympics-in-basketball\/"},"modified":"2012-07-09T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T01:43:56","slug":"dr-fails-to-make-the-olympics-in-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/07\/09\/dr-fails-to-make-the-olympics-in-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"DR fails to make the Olympics in basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It was a worthy try, with Dominicans still celebrating the victory over Macedonia, but the team did not make it. In the end, during the 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament held in Caracas, Venezuela, the Dominican team failed to win one of 3 last slots available for the Olympics. After falling to Lithuania, the DR lost its final chance to Nigeria 88 to 73 on Sunday, 8 July. The game had been tied in the fourth quarter with 5:34 minutes to go, but then Nigeria pulled away. <\/p>\n<p> Russia (ranked 11th), Lithuania (ranked 5th) and Nigeria (ranked 21st) qualified for the Olympics in the tournament. <\/p>\n<p> The teams that will compete in the London Olympics basketball and their rankings going into the Olympics are: Lithuania (5), Tunisia (32), USA (1), France (12), Nigeria (21), Argentina (3), China (10), Great Britain (43), Brazil (13), Australia (9), Russia (11) and Spain (2). <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.coachcal.com\/15511\/2012\/07\/dominican-republic-recap\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a worthy try, with Dominicans still celebrating the victory over Macedonia, but the team did not make it. In the end, during the 12-team FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament held in Caracas, Venezuela, the Dominican team failed to win one of 3 last slots available for the Olympics. After falling to Lithuania, the DR &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2012\/07\/09\/dr-fails-to-make-the-olympics-in-basketball\/\" 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":[231,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33262"}],"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=33262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}