{"id":779136,"date":"2026-07-04T19:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779136\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:39:12","slug":"attention-turns-to-the-bronze-medal-decider-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779136\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention turns to the Bronze Medal decider in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Crocs\u2019 Gold Medal hopes have been dashed at the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup, suffering a heartbreaking Semi-Final defeat to the United States in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Australia entered the clash unbeaten and full of confidence following a dominant tournament campaign, but the Americans proved too strong on the biggest stage.<\/p>\n<p>The United States set the tone early with relentless pressure and offensive firepower, forcing Australia to chase the contest through the night.<\/p>\n<p>The Crocs had moments of brilliance, trading blows in the first quarter, highlighted by Riak Akhuar\u2019s monster throwdown.<\/p>\n<p>The loss sees the Crocs move into the Bronze Medal decider, where they will face either T\u00fcriye or Serbia with the chance to secure a medal.<\/p>\n<p>Remaining group stage fixtures:<\/p>\n<p>DATE<\/p>\n<p>GAME<\/p>\n<p>TIME (AEST)<\/p>\n<p>6 July<\/p>\n<p>BRONZE MEDAL V TBC<\/p>\n<p>TBC<\/p>\n<p>Where to watch:<\/p>\n<p>All Group Stage and Round of 16 games are available to watch Live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@FIBA\/streams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIBA YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Final Phase Games (Quarter Finals, Semi Finals, Finals) are available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazn.com\/en-AU\/competition\/Competition:bwowjwcssos25g6yp5i7hgl6t?utm_source=fibaweb&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=wcqualifierswindow2_articlefirsttoknow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtside 1891<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Crocs\u2019 Gold Medal hopes have been dashed at the FIBA U17 Basketball World Cup, suffering a heartbreaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85,83],"class_list":["post-779136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}