{"id":135220,"date":"2020-02-20T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T09:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=135220"},"modified":"2020-02-20T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T09:30:33","slug":"tip-off-times-confirmed-for-fiba-olympic-qualifying-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/tip-off-times-confirmed-for-fiba-olympic-qualifying-tournaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip-off times confirmed for FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game times and schedules have been confirmed for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments that are to take place in Canada, Croatia, Lithuania and Serbia from June 23-28, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The first game of the Qualifiers will be played in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/oqt\/lithuania\/2020\">Kaunas, Lithuania<\/a>, when Angola will go up against Poland on June 23, with a 4:30 p.m. start, local time. The home fans will then have an opportunity to watch Lithuania in the second game, against Venezuela, with a 7:30 p.m. tip-off time.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/oqt\/croatia\/2020\">Split, Croatia<\/a>, Germany and Mexico will get things underway in a June 23 clash that tips off locally at 4:30 p.m.\u00a0Hosts Croatia will begin their campaign the following day, June 24, against Brazil with an 8:00 p.m. start.<\/p>\n<p>Puerto Rico and Senegal will trade blows in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/oqt\/serbia\/2020\">Serbia OQT&#8217;s<\/a> curtain-raiser on June 23 in Belgrade with a 5:00 p.m. local time tip. The Serbian national team will then hit the Belgrade Arena court in the second game of the day and take on the Dominican Republic, a game that has an 8:15 p.m. tip.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/images.fiba.com\/Graphic\/2\/2\/6\/3\/YneyUhYsaUaVm6njbqh4bw.jpg?v=20200220084012368\" alt=\"\" data-path=\"12c0d926-922b-4c57-9e4b-e8e7c2a7b48d\" data-id=\"1534ec02-371a-4b19-bdaf-2482c8fee81f\" \/><em>Serbia will begin their FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament against Dominican Republic\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, hosts Canada will take on Greece\u00a0in a glitzy opener for the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/oqt\/canada\/2020\">\u00a0Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Victoria, Canada<\/a>,\u00a0starting at 4:05 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>Full schedules are available on the websites of the respective tournaments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/oqt\/canada\/2020\/games\">FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament &#8211; Victoria, Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/oqt\/croatia\/2020\/games\">FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament &#8211; Split, Croatia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/oqt\/lithuania\/2020\/games\">FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament &#8211; Kaunas, Lithuania<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/oqt\/serbia\/2020\/games\">FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament &#8211; Belgrade, Serbia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winners of each of the four FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments will qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Men&#8217;s Olympic Basketball Tournament.\u00a0They will join the eight teams that have already secured their Olympic berths.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina, Australia, France, Iran, Nigeria, Spain and the United States qualified directly via the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, while Japan qualified as the hosts of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game times and schedules have been confirmed for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments that are to take place in Canada, Croatia, Lithuania and Serbia from June 23-28, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-135220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympic-games"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135220"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=135220"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=135220"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=135220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}