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Basketball gold for ParalympicsGB would be fitting end to fantastic Games | Ade Adepitan
The team need the nation’s support against the USA in a Games that could end up with an enduring legacy for French people
It’s the closing weekend of Paris 2024 and we’re about to enjoy the biggest moment in British Paralympic basketball history. In fact I think it’s the biggest moment for British basketball, full stop.
Britain play the USA in the men’s wheelchair basketball final on Saturday and we’ve never won gold, either men’s or women’s. What we’ve got here is something that has taken decades. It’s the work of the generation before me, my generation and those that came after and now we are here; GB and USA are by quite some margin the two best teams in the world.
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