Crew USA suffered a stunning loss in girls’s 3×3 basketball on the Summer season Olympics in Paris on Monday, and Hailey Van Lith believes the officers are guilty.
Van Lith made an enormous allegation towards the referees following Crew USA’s stunning 18-16 loss to Spain in extra time of the ladies’s 3×3 semifinals. The faculty basketball star claimed that Spain gamers flopped all through the sport however that the referees “wished the U.S. to lose.”
“This was 1000% BS. These refs wished the U.S. to lose,” Van Lith stated via Outkick’s Amber Harding. “They had been flopping left and proper. They don’t seem to be that good. Nice job, women, we all know who ought to have received.”
Crew USA later defeated Canada 16-13 to win the bronze medal, however they had been favored to win gold.
Van Lith might have felt empowered to bash the Olympic referees after ESPN’s Brian Windhorst stated on “The Pat McAfee Present” Monday that there is a bias against the United States in 3×3 basketball. Windhorst stated the Olympics make it troublesome for prime U.S. gamers to qualify for the 3×3 event, which might be a think about why Caitlin Clark didn’t play after the U.S. girls’s basketball workforce snubbed her.
“There was like 15 hoops that she would have needed to bounce by. As a result of FIBA doesn’t care about rankings,” Windhorst stated. “They simply care about, like, rising the sport elsewhere outdoors the U.S. So it’s not their precedence.”
The idea is that the U.S. is so dominant in 5×5 basketball that the Worldwide Olympic Committee would favor one other nation to prevail in 3×3. Whether or not Van Lith subscribes to that idea or not, she believes she and her teammates had been shortchanged this 12 months.
Van Lith is among the prime gamers in girls’s faculty basketball. She introduced earlier this 12 months that she is transferring to a new school.
