LC
Years ago

2019 FIBA World Cup awarded to China

China has been announced as the winning bid to host the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Following a 17 month bidding process, China overcame a strong bid from the Philippines to prevail in the final vote 14-7.

China to host the 2019 FIBA World Cup

It will be the first World Cup to include 32 teams with a rigorous qualification schedule that will include many more home and away games for every nation aiming to qualify.

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Juno 74  
Years ago

Nice from a timezone perspective for Aussie TV viewers :)

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paul  
Years ago

Nice promo vid here:

https://amp.twimg.com/v/f5e5667c-013f-445b-bd70-2f0175d2acff

It says there will be 1200 home & away qualifying games leading up to the World Cup!

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LC  
Years ago

Something we are all looking forward to!

More Boomers games on home soil more frequently.

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lose  
Years ago

First they got the Winter Olympics earlier, then they got the FIBA World Cup... Next they you know, China will have the world at their mercy.

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LC  
Years ago

Unlike the winter Olympics, they will not need to manufacture the snow for the basketball world cup!

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Budgie  
Years ago

The umpiring will be shit! And if China don't get their way they might threaten to walk off.

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Anonymous  
Years ago

why on earth is a country like China with zero humanitarian morals, the worst pollution in the world, and basically a third world country apart from the money the chinese government stash away from their own people, allowed to host an event like this, the facilities and health concerns for athletes should be a priority. The place is a cess pit. If the proceeds went back into the country for the people who have to live their and it actually improved the living standards for the majority you would say OK, But China is nuts, it has entire cities, built with roads, schools hospitals, and vacant buildings just sitting in the middle of nowhere as no access roads are built, and none of their people can even afford to live in such places. Half of them only have the front of the buildings so they look like movie sets. his is the china the world does not see.
They are only interested in results and quick results, and the rest of the world continues to be blinded by them

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Curtley  
Years ago

^Best pseudo-political speech in years.

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