Las Vegas Review-Journal

U.S. women’s basketball learns rest of field for this summer’s Olympics

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The women’s basketball field is set for the Paris Olympics, with 10 teams joining the United States and France.

The most unlikely of the bunch to qualify was Canada. The Canadians lost Sunday and needed host Hungary to lose to Spain to get into their fourth straight Olympics. Spain had already qualified and didn’t have much to play for. It showed early as the Spaniards were down 22 points, but rallied for the one-point win, outscoring Hungary by 15 in the fourth quarter.

Other teams to qualify at the four tournament­s included Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Serbia and Spain.

■ American Hockey League: At Thousand Palms, California, forward Logan Morrison scored a pair of goals, defenseman Connor Carrick had three assists and netminder Chris Driedger stopped all 20 shots on goal as the Pacific Division-leading Coachella Valley Firebirds (27-12-4, 60) blanked the Henderson Silver Knights (21-21-4, 48) 4-0 in a late Saturday outcome.

■ Aquatics: At Doha, Qatar, teenager Pan Zhanle swam the fastest 100 meters in history as he led off China’s gold medal-winning 4x100 freestyle relay team at the World Aquatics Championsh­ip. His time of 46.80 seconds — with a split time of 22.26 — took six hundredths off Romanian David Popovici’s world record from 2022 and establishe­d the 19-year-old as the one to beat in swimming’s marquee race at this year’s Paris Olympics. China won the relay in 3:11.08, while Italy finished a second behind, with the U.S. rounding off the podium in 3:12.29.

■ Tennis: At Dallas, second-seeded Tommy Paul won his second career ATP title, surging ahead by winning the first three games in the third set and beating unseeded Marcos Giron 7-6 (3), 5-7, 6-3 in an allamerica­n final at the Dallas Open on Sunday. In other tournament­s Sunday, Frenchman Ugo Humbert won his fifth career ATP title by outclassin­g second-seeded Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria 6-4, 6-3 in the Open 13 final in Marseilles, France, and Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Repbulic beat Romania’s Ana Bogdan 6-4, 6-3 in the final of the WTA Transylvan­ia Open in Cluj-napoca, Romania.

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