Diana Taurasi will be playing in a record sixth Olympic games when the US women's basketball team goes for its eighth consecutive gold medal.
ABC Sport will be covering the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on our live blog, beginning on Saturday, July 27.The 42-year-old guard turned the joke into reality — she'll be playing in a record sixth Olympic games when the US women's basketball team goes for its eighth consecutive gold medal."Why not? I say this all the time, if I sign up to play, I sign up to play," she said in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press.
"No one has done it more than her. There's no substitute for that level of experience," US coach Cheryl Reeve said.Taurasi is currently the fourth all-time leading scorer in Olympic history with 414 points. She's 74 points behind her former teammate Lisa Leslie for the top spot on the American list. "I tried to soak up all the knowledge I could. Then as I progressed in my career I got more responsibility. I became one of the leaders."
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