South Sudan certified for the Paris Olympics on Saturday after ending because the highest-placed African group on the Basketball World Cup.
Tournament debutant South Sudan, which performed its first official worldwide sport solely six years in the past, beat Angola 101-78 in Manila to say its third win of the competitors.
Nearest challengers Egypt then misplaced 88-86 to New Zealand handy the only real African qualifying berth on provide for the Paris Games to South Sudan.
Chicago Bulls factors guard Carlik Jones scored 26 factors and had 15 assists and seven rebounds for South Sudan, which is ranked 62 on this planet.
Marial Shayok scored 18 factors and Nuni Omot, who was born in a refugee camp in Kenya, the place his mother and father spent three years after travelling greater than 400 miles to flee civil struggle in Ethiopia, scored 17.
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South Sudan has gained plaudits for his or her dynamic play and optimistic perspective on and off the court docket on the World Cup being held within the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia. It pulled off a historic win when it beat basketball-obsessed China 89-69 in its second sport.
Although it was eradicated from title rivalry within the first spherical, it beat the Philippines 87-68 within the classification spherical to maneuver nearer to a spot on the Paris Olympics.
The group has captured the South Sudanese public’s creativeness, with crowds gathering to observe their group on large screens within the capital Juba.
