{"id":486116,"date":"2024-08-08T14:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486116"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T18:40:33","slug":"france-gets-another-chance-for-olympic-gold-beating-germany-73-69","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/france-gets-another-chance-for-olympic-gold-beating-germany-73-69\/","title":{"rendered":"France gets another chance for Olympic gold, beating Germany 73-69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team secured a thrilling 73-69 victory over Germany on Thursday, propelling the hosts into the gold medal game at the Paris Olympics. The win, fueled by an enthusiastic home crowd, was a hard-fought battle that saw France edge out their opponents in the final moments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FRANCE BEATS GERMANY 73-69 AND IS HEADING TO THE FINAL \ud83d\udd25\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7<\/p>\n<p>Wemby: 11 PTS, 7 REB, 4 AST, 3 BLK<br \/>\nGuerschon Yabusele: 17 PTS, 7 REB, 2 AST<\/p>\n<p>They will play the winner of USA vs. Serbia for gold \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W2D9mGUYPx\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/W2D9mGUYPx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1821601551842000988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Guerschon Yabusele led the French team with a standout 17-point performance, while Isaia Cordinier contributed 16 points, including two crucial free throws with just seven seconds left on the clock. These late-game heroics helped France fend off a determined comeback attempt by Germany, securing their spot in the final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wemby was in tears after France\u2019s win over Germany \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since 1996, the host country will medal in Basketball \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jA6OoxTDn1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/jA6OoxTDn1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1821609028600131955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>France, who were silver medalists at the Tokyo Olympics, now await the outcome of the other semifinal between the United States and Serbia. This upcoming matchup promises to be a rematch of the 2016 Rio Olympics gold medal game, featuring a clash between <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/lebron-james\/\">LeBron James<\/a>, the four-time NBA MVP, and <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a>, the reigning three-time MVP. The winner of that contest will face France in what is expected to be an exciting and highly anticipated final.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SnYAtMH148Q?si=YaH2ZQ2He1p2A0l1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team secured a thrilling 73-69 victory over Germany on Thursday, propelling the hosts into the gold medal game at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486117,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,17142,16880],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18357,17862,19351],"acf":{"announce":"Guerschon Yabusele led the French team with a standout 17-point performance","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486118,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486116\/revisions\/486118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486116"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486116"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}