{"id":866045,"date":"2026-08-21T09:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866045\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:44:13","slug":"canada-beats-host-mexico-at-fiba-olympic-womens-basketball-pre-qualifier-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866045\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada beats host Mexico at FIBA Olympic women\u2019s basketball pre-qualifier \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

GUADALAJARA \u2013 The Canadian women\u2019s 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

Yvonne Ejim had 19 points to help Canada improve to 3-0. Syla Swords chipped in with 17 points.<\/p>\n

Mariana Valenzuela had 17 points for Mexico.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGonzaga’s Yvonne Ejim speaks with members of the media during the West Coast Conference Women’s NCAA college basketball media day on Oct. 16, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo\/John Locher)<\/p>\n

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

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The tournament champion will earn a berth in one of the FIBA Women\u2019s Olympic Qualifying Tournaments in February 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 20, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GUADALAJARA \u2013 The Canadian women\u2019s basketball team closed the group phase of the FIBA Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-866045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866045","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=866045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}