{"id":407668,"date":"2022-09-27T19:27:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=407668"},"modified":"2022-09-27T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:27:56","slug":"loss-at-womens-basketball-world-cup-later-mali-players-were-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/loss-at-womens-basketball-world-cup-later-mali-players-were-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss At Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup, Later Mali Players Were Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What Led To A Fight Between Mali Basketball Players<\/h2>\n<p>Following their defeat at the Women&#8217;s World Cup on Monday, tensions between two Mali basketball players were at an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2022 Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia, teammates Salimatou Kourouma and Kamite Elisabeth Dabou got into a physical brawl after their team&#8217;s 81-68 loss to Serbia, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Mali players fight each other at women\u2019s basketball World Cup<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D91ewq10zu\">pic.twitter.com\/D91ewq10zu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheInsiderPaper\/status\/1574582825793241088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The two were captured in a now-viral video punching one other while a reporter spoke to Serbian midfielder Sasa Cado. Then, other Malian players rush to the scene to diffuse the conflict before it worsens.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-10\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">On Tuesday, the International Basketball Federation issued a statement about\u00a0the incident.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An investigation&#39;s been launched by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) after two players from Mali were filmed fighting with each other after their team were eliminated from the Women&#39;s World Cup.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gOUmHGasSW\">https:\/\/t.co\/gOUmHGasSW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/myehnkM005\">pic.twitter.com\/myehnkM005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC News Africa (@BBCAfrica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCAfrica\/status\/1574686545805803522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-12\" class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\">&#8220;<em>FIBA acknowledged today that there was an altercation between Mali players in the mixed zone following the Group B game Serbia-Mali at the FIBA Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup 2022<\/em>,&#8221; the federation wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\"><em>&#8220;Following the incident, FIBA has opened an investigation<\/em>,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;<em>Once the investigation is concluded, FIBA will decide on any applicable disciplinary measures.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After losing 81-68 to Serbia to register their fourth straight defeat at the Women&#39;s Basketball World Cup, Mali players fight each.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eyrdb0hk4X\">https:\/\/t.co\/eyrdb0hk4X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charles Onyango-Obbo (@cobbo3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cobbo3\/status\/1574468850556571648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The video was obtained by Serbian media during a player interview, and one player even made a couple of haymaker attempts before other players rushed in to break up the unpleasant scene.<\/p>\n<p>Salimatou Kourouma of Mali and Kamite Elisabeth Dabou were captured on camera fighting after their team&#8217;s Women&#8217;s World Cup loss to Serbia, 81-68.<\/p>\n<p>Salimatou Kourouma and Kamite Elisabeth Dabou&#8217;s altercation is the subject of an inquiry by FIBA, the world basketball regulatory body.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Mali women&#39;s basketball player tried to fight her teammate after a World Cup loss. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VLvOgXDyyb\">https:\/\/t.co\/VLvOgXDyyb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TMZ (@TMZ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMZ\/status\/1574759655112335361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Given that Mali&#8217;s dreadful squad has lost each of its four games by an average margin of 30 points, both players are scoring less than 10 points each game.<\/p>\n<p>Mali lost to Australia earlier in the tournament by an incredible 60 points.<\/p>\n<p>The battle, sadly, did not help the Mali team&#8217;s performance at the Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup. They fell 88-65 against Canada in their final match of the competition on Tuesday, leaving them with five losses and no victories as they returned to Africa.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Bgs4eN_3Iw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS UPDATES-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nfl\/odds\">NFL ODDS\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/schedule\">NBA SCHEDULE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Led To A Fight Between Mali Basketball Players Following their defeat at the Women&#8217;s World Cup on Monday, tensions between two Mali basketball players were at an all-time high. At the 2022 Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup in Sydney, Australia, teammates Salimatou Kourouma and Kamite Elisabeth Dabou got into a physical brawl after their team&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":407672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3176,3175,3177],"class_list":["post-407668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-fiba-2022","tag-fiba-updates","tag-mali-fiba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}