{"id":865929,"date":"2026-08-21T07:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865929\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T07:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T07:28:28","slug":"canada-beats-host-mexico-at-fiba-olympic-womens-basketball-pre-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865929\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada beats host Mexico at FIBA Olympic women&#8217;s basketball pre-qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian women&#8217;s basketball team closed the group phase of the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament with a 70-64 win over Mexico on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne Ejim had 19 points to help Canada improve to 3-0. Syla Swords chipped in with 17 points.<\/p>\n<p>Mariana Valenzuela had 17 points for Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Canada will play New Zealand in the semifinals on Saturday while the host team will play Brazil. The final is set for Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tournament champion will earn a berth in one of the FIBA Women\u2019s Olympic Qualifying Tournaments in February 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian women&#8217;s basketball team closed the group phase of the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament with a 70-64&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-865929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}