It has been forty years since the Hungarian women's basketball team fought to be in the Olympic Games. It's been a long time coming. No one from the current team was alive in 1984, when national team captain Laszlo Kilic's team finished fourth behind China, Yugoslavia and Canada (our opponent on Thursday) in Cuba in the qualifiers and earned a place in Los Angeles. The five-ring Angeles Games, in which he was unable to participate due to a political decision… In the statement of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, he referred to the fact that the mob shared the concerns of the Soviet Union and other socialist countries regarding the Games and would not participate in the Olympic Games in solidarity – it would have been The Kiss Lenkés already guess this when they throw Killik in the air after the last match.
“I've heard a lot about Uncle Lasse, which the national team captain Norbert Szekely has talked about many times, and obviously I know Aje Nemeth and Linky Kiss as well. Circo Uni Gyor's Deborah Dube, the 27-year-old captain of our team, will play in the group stage with Canada, Japan and Spain in Sopron from Thursday, she told Nemzeti Sport a day before the start. – We have already dealt with the Olympics since the successful participation in the European Championships, thanks to which we can now prepare for the qualifiers. We know that forty-four years ago the women's national team participated in the Games for the first time, and they have not done so since. I have interesting feelings about this: I admit that I didn't think I could get to this point, and that participating in the Olympics was within reach. It is an opportunity for all of us to dream big. It would be the pinnacle of everyone's career if we got out. But it will not be easy, we will face three strong competitors. How is this an opportunity or opportunity? I don't know yet, I see it as a possibility. The fourth place we achieved at the European Championships filled us with joy, and we considered it as a plus for the possibility of qualifying for the Olympics. The national team has been in this situation for a long time, and you should seize the opportunity. But it should not be seen as a burden, because if we approach the tournament in this way, we can easily cramp up and our game becomes uncertain. It seems that the other three national teams are expected to participate in the Olympics, and the strength ranking of the sixteen teams participating in the qualifiers indicates this. While we are currently in thirteenth place, our competitors are in the top eight. “Many of us have already thought that we could meet stars and role models at the Olympics, since the group stage of basketball will not be in Paris, but in Lille, but for now this is just a fantasy.”
