{"id":40237,"date":"2024-07-24T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T08:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=40237"},"modified":"2024-07-24T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T08:10:10","slug":"dtigress-face-japan-in-last-pre-olympics-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/24\/dtigress-face-japan-in-last-pre-olympics-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u2019Tigress Face Japan In Last Pre-Olympics Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s senior women\u2019s basketball team, D\u2019Tigress will face Japan in their last pre-Olympics friendly in Lille, France on Wednesday (today).<br \/>\nThe team arrived Lille on Tuesday, July 23 for the preparatory game.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Tigress will be willing to end their barren run after losing their first two friendlies to Germany and Serbia.<br \/>\nLosing by a 14-point margin,77- 63, to Germany in their first friendly last Friday and suffered another defeat, losing by a 8-point margin, 70-62,<br \/>\nin the second friendly against Serbia, on Sunday, July 21.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Tigress will be making their third appearance at the Olympics in Paris following their outings in Athens 2004 and Tokyo 2020.<br \/>\nThey failed to get beyond the group stages at both editions.<\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Tigress will face a tough challenge in Group B, which includes powerhouse teams such as Australia, Canada, and host nation France\u2014all ranked in the top 7 of the FIBA world rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s senior women\u2019s basketball team, D\u2019Tigress will face Japan in their last pre-Olympics friendly in Lille, France on Wednesday (today). The team arrived Lille on Tuesday, July 23 for the preparatory game. D\u2019Tigress will be willing to end their barren run after losing their first two friendlies to Germany and Serbia. Losing by a 14-point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":40238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[21,1250],"class_list":["post-40237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-basketball","tag-dtigress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40254,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40237\/revisions\/40254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}