RIO DE JANEIRO – Japan’s women’s basketball team pushed the United States before crumbling after halftime on the way to a 110-64 quarterfinal defeat at the Rio Games on Tuesday.
Japan trailed the U.S. — which is aiming for its sixth straight Olympic title — by only two points just minutes before halftime at Carioca Arena 1, but fell apart after the restart as the American stars imposed their authority.
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