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Juan Carlos Navarro has been one of the most brilliant players in European basketball, at the level of very few chosen ones. Gifted with a terrifying aim and an inexhaustible imagination, Navarro has always loved challenges. The more powerful the opponent or the more compromised the situation, the more deadly his game became and the more surprises he pulled out of his hat. And all this with less physical qualities than Kikanovic, Petrovic or Spanoulis.
But time does not pass for free for anyone. His lightness turned into fragility and injuries limited his range of movement. He was no longer the surprising player, light but with an agile stride, who always found a crack to solve any situation. For the past few seasons, the amount of minutes and efforts have taken their toll on a body that, as we have seen, was not prepared for this long-distance race.
I have the feeling that Navarro is looking for a farewell to match his figure. A possibility that is receding as time goes by, but to which the point guard seems to be clinging. An insatiable winner throughout his career, he does not want to be defeated by fate. Now, more than ever, La Bomba is preparing his body thoroughly to allow him to say goodbye with dignity. The one that deserves one of the greatest players this country has ever produced. Hopefully the Eurobasket will prove Scariolo right.
It is an embrace that lasts forever. After waiting ten minutes on the provisional podium watching rivals go down the water, it is finally confirmed. Maialen Chourraut is silver at the Olympic Games in Tokyo and is melted in an embrace with Xabi Etxaniz. Her coach, her husband, her confidant. Thousands of kilometers away, her daughter, Ane, at home, jumping for sure while watching her mother on TV triumphing again.
The descent in the final round was almost a highlight. No penalties and the best time at the finish line so far, 106.63 seconds. But the best, the fastest ones were still to go down. Only Germany’s Ricarda Funk beat her, gold with a time of 105.5 seconds, while the bronze went to Australia’s Jessica Fox.
Desde que el baloncesto se incluyó como deporte olímpico en 1936 en Berlín, el Team USA se ha llevado a casa el oro 15 veces en 18 participaciones – pero en 2021, el Team USA está lejos de ser invencible, con tres derrotas sólo en el mes de julio.
Equipos dominantes como el Dream Team original o el Redeem Team de 2008 han creado la expectativa de que las colecciones de superestrellas estadounidenses de la NBA nunca deberían perder, pero desde 1992, el Team USA ha sufrido 14 derrotas impactantes en torneos y exhibiciones.
A efectos de esta lista, pasamos por alto las derrotas sufridas por el Team USA cuando la plantilla no estaba llena de talento NBA, en torneos como el Campeonato Mundial de la FIBA de 1998, o el Campeonato de las Américas de la FIBA de 2005, en los que el Team USA se apoyó en estrellas universitarias o en estadounidenses poco conocidos que jugaban a nivel internacional.
El Mundial FIBA de 2002 fue el único torneo de George Karl al frente del Team USA. Su equipo carecía de estrellas en comparación con las iteraciones anteriores del Team USA, y estaba liderado por jugadores como Paul Pierce, Jermaine O’Neal, Shawn Marion, Reggie Miller, Baron Davis y Ben Wallace. El equipo de la FR Yugoslavia que eliminó al equipo de Estados Unidos de la lucha por las medallas contaba con Peja Stojakovic y Vlade Divac.
“The fact that Juan Carlos de Borbón lives in luxury in Abu Dhabi while those who make a song critical of the monarchy are criminally prosecuted clearly calls into question, in addition to freedom of expression, the principle of justice and equality before the law,” Belarra lamented.
In this line, for the minister “those who systematically prevent the Parliament, the seat of popular sovereignty, to take action on the matter and to know the allegedly illegal activities of the Crown, are calling into question the very principle of parliamentary monarchy”.
