Czech men’s basketball team reach Olympic qualifiers after historic result

The Czech men’s basketball team have made it to the qualification stage for next year’s Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. They secured a berth in the qualifiers with a 97:70 win over Latvia on Friday to take seventh place at the EuroBasket championship – the highest placing ever achieved by the Czechs. Their Israeli coach Ronen Ginzburg said people had laughed when on taking the job he had said the team would be playing for a place at the Olympics.

Author: Ian Willoughby