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Anonymous

Years ago

Australia & New Zealand are in trouble

The president of the French Basketball federation is now in charge.

http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/FIBA/fibaStru/fibaPres.asp

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Anonymous

Years ago

& Corletto!

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Anonymous

Years ago

i'm waiting for an April fools gag! Considering for instance a Nation like turkey run a budget of 40 million Euro a year i'm sure they wouldnt be to happy pitching in 500,00 euro for a tournament

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Years ago

Where is your source Steve? Nothing on FIBA.com website or their European or Eurobasket sites to support your claims.

In fact after checking, next year's 16 teams for Eurobasket are already confirmed (Link: http://linky.com.au/e2rkq) as follows:

Spain
Serbia
Greece
Slovenia
France
Croatia
Germany
Lithuania
Russia
Turkey
Montenegro
Great Britain
Belgium
F.Y.R. of Macedonia
Israel
Georgia
(notice there is no Italy!!!)

FIBA comprises of 5 world regions and each region has a set amount of WC and Olympic places. FIBA Europe is one of these regions and I would find it very hard to believe that FIBA Oceania or any other region's teams would be forced to play in another region's competition to qualify for such events as you claim. Maybe you have mixed up what is actually happening?

Nothing has changed as far as I am aware with regards to the qualification process for the 2012 London games.

As the Olympics has fewer teams than the WC's, and therefore quaslification for this event is definitely different to that of the WC's. Yopu are right iun saying that there will be an Olympic qualification tournament for those teams which have not yet qualified for the major event. FIBA Oceania has 1 qualification spot for the Olympics, so the loser of Australia vs New Zealand series would need to take part in this qualification tournament right before the Olympics to play in it.

So please, provide some evidence and clarity behind your claims.

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