The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

After wrong decision: Three referees suspended at basketball World Cup

2019-09-08T09:31:26.596Z


The outcry was great. "A goddamn joke," Lithuania coach said about a missed point in the closing stages of the match against France. The World Cup is over for the referee team.



The basketball World Federation Fiba has suspended a referee trio after a mistake in the match France against Lithuania for the rest of the World Cup in China. The referees Antonio Conde (Spain), Daniel Alberto Garcia Nieves (Venezuela) and Leandro Lezcano (Argentina) should be used in any game of the tournament more, said the Fiba on Sunday.

In the midterm match between France and Lithuania were still about 30 seconds on the clock when Jonas Valanciunas was fouled. The Lithuanian turned the first of two free throws to 75:76. During the second litter, French NBA star Rudy Gobert banned the ring during the rebound. This had not been punished.

This is not a basketball match, "Lithuania coach Dainius Adomaitis said afterwards, explaining what he thought should have happened:" Stop the game, look at it again. "

The Fiba now said that the correct decision would have been to give a point for Lithuania. Why the referees team had not looked at the scene again, the association did not write. The result will not be corrected. France won 78:75 and moved into the quarter-finals prematurely. Lithuania dropped out, winning a win would have given the team the chance to reach the last eight.

Source: spiegel

All sports articles on 2019-09-08

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.