Luka Doncic Slovenia, the current European champion , will have Lithuania as the biggest rival to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, after the draw for the four Pre-Olympic tournaments held on Wednesday at the FIBA ​​headquarters.

Spain, the current world champion, is one of the eight teams qualified for the Games along with the United States, Australia, France, Argentina, Japan, Nigeria and Iran. There are four places left to distribute in as many very hard Pre-Olympics, since six teams will compete in each one, and the composition of the groups is already known. The tournaments will be played between June 23 and 28, so in principle all the stars of the NBA could be.

In the Kaunas tournament, host Lithuania will be the main obstacle for Slovenia, while Korea, Venezuela, Poland and Angola seem to leave with less options. Two other European teams, Serbia and Italy, also start as favorites in the Belgrade Pre-Olympics ahead of New Zealand, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Senegal.

In Split, Croatia hosts a high-level tournament where Germany, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Tunisia are also cited. Finally, the Canadian town of Victoria will host the local team and also Greece, China, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Uruguay.

The formula is the same for all Pre-Olympians. In each one, the six selections are divided into two groups , where the first two will go to the semifinals. The winners of that tie will play a final in which the only Olympic ticket of each tournament will be distributed.

The women's team knows its rivals

The Spanish women's basketball team also knows its rivals for the pre-Olympic to be held in the Chinese city of Foshán from February 6 to 9: Britain, China and South Korea.

The raffle held at the FIBA ​​headquarters in Mies (Switzerland) was directed by the geographical principles that govern the rules established by the basket organization. Thus, before starting, Spain already knew that it would play in Foshán and that China would be one of its rivals.

Great Britain came out of hype 3, so that rivals in hype 4 could only be Korea or Puerto Rico, to avoid having three European teams in the same pre-Olympic. Korea left. Three teams of the four participants are classified for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, so that the current European champion seems to have the way practically expedited.

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