Basketball Australia confirms Bec Allen played two games of the Opals' bronze-winning World Cup campaign with a partially collapsed lung and two broken ribs.
abc.net.au/news/opals-bec-allen-diagnosed-with-partial-lung-collapse/101526282Bec Allen played in the Opals' charge to World Cup bronze with a partially collapsed lung and two broken ribs, Basketball Australia has confirmed.
Coach Sandy Brondello made the decision to rest her for Australia's last match of the tournament, a win over Canada that secured the Opals' fourth World Cup bronze medal. Allen went in for further medical assessment in Melbourne after experiencing discomfort in the weeks after the tournament. Bec Allen was injured after being hit hard in the ribs against Serbia, missing the next two games at the FIBA Women's World Cup.
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