The USA girls’s basketball choice committee launched an official assertion in June, a number of days after the media reported that they’d left probably the most dynamic and in style feminine athlete on the planet right now, Caitlin Clark, off of their Olympic workforce.
The league broke the information after Caitlin Clark drained seven 3-point photographs, scored 30 factors, led in assists, and crammed a 20,000-seat enviornment in Washington, DC, the night time earlier than the information broke. Clark placed on a clinic.
But it surely was not sufficient for these offended, bitter girls to place Clark on the Olympic workforce the place she belonged.
The world was ready for Caitlin Clark to play within the Paris Olympics, the WNBA brass gave the US and the world the center finger.
Caitlin Clark, who owns the entire main collegiate scoring information in historical past and led the NCAA in assists this yr, was not chosen for the Olympic workforce.
The 5 girls who excluded Caitlin Clark from the 2024 Olympics are Seimone Augustus, Daybreak Staley (heart), Jennifer Rizzotti , Delisha Milton-Jones , Bethany Donaphin and the offended Olympic girls’s coach, Cheryl Reeve.
The WNBA brass clearly hates their followers. They discover Caitlin Clark followers vile and unacceptable. And so they determined to punish all of America for loving Caitlin.
The WNBA mentioned nothing concerning the choice. The league did nothing to defend the most well-liked participant in its historical past.
These girls can not publicly admit why they banned Caitlin from the Olympics. At first, they insisted that Caitlin didn’t have the expertise and expertise of those different girls.
Then, that lie was uncovered shortly. On the time their choice was made:
- Caitlin Clark led the league in 3-point photographs.
- Caitlin Clark was within the high 8 within the league in scoring.
- Caitlin Clark was within the high 3 within the league in assists.
Caitlin Clark’s stats are higher than a lot of the different girls chosen for the workforce.
Clark is one in every of solely three WNBA gamers who ranks within the high 20 in factors, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks per sport.
Catilin Clark’s present stats put her above each single guard chosen for the Olympic workforce.
And, Caitlin Clark is the 4th hottest athlete on the planet right now behind solely LeBron James, Tiger Woods, and Steph Curry.
Caitlin Clark has now turn out to be ESPN’s fourth most favorited lively athlete
The one athletes forward of her:
LeBron James
Tiger Woods
Stephen Curry#WNBA pic.twitter.com/95uwrYJRTW— Clark Report (@CClarkReport) June 21, 2024
Within the first day of girls’s basketball on the Olympics the US girls’s workforce drew the smallest crowd by a large margin. The US girls led by their offended Caitlin-hatin coach Cheryl Reeve solely had 13,500 followers at their sport.
The U.S. girls’s basketball workforce drew the smallest crowd among the many opening video games on the Olympics. Who might’ve seen this coming after USA Basketball determined to not take Caitlin Clark to Paris?
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— OutKick (@Outkick) July 30, 2024
And now the workforce is struggling to promote tickets for the Sunday sport. With out Caitlin Clark it simply will not be really easy to fill the seats.
The Olympics are hoping to fill the seats with a particular provide.
The New York Submit reported:
The Caitlin Clark-less USA girls’s basketball workforce is having hassle drawing the crowds you’d anticipate throughout the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The New York Instances reported Wednesday that tickets for the USA vs. Germany sport set for Aug. 4 are being offered in a “particular provide” for simply 24 Euros per ticket with no assigned seating.
This implies anybody can seize front-row seats for the sport starting at 11:15 a.m. ET.
“Paris 2024 is having hassle promoting tickets to the US-Germany girls’s basketball sport on Aug. 4. ‘Particular provide’ tickets now accessible: solely 24 Euros every and the seats will be wherever within the venue. Possibly entrance row! Would’ve been a sellout with Caitlin Clark on the workforce,” Instances reporter Juliet Macur wrote on X.
Followers have been additionally fast to level out within the submit’s feedback that the sport will not be in Paris however simply exterior in close by Lille, France, roughly a two-hour drive, maybe affecting the shortage of curiosity in buying tickets.
Nonetheless, it’s exhausting to think about that this sport would have such a tricky time drawing crowds if Clark weren’t snubbed from the workforce.
