There is less and less left until the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The qualifying lists are about to be closed and the remaining pre-Olympics are beginning to take place to define who will take the last tickets for the event of the year. Basketball is in that period, about to live the week where it will be known which teams will complete the Olympic table.

Between July 2 and 7, the four qualifying tournaments will be held that will give the last four places in the Paris competition. There are 24 teams competing for the places that still need to be filled.

How will the qualifiers be played? There will be four tournaments that will be held in different venues. In each of them there will be six teams, divided into two groups, that is, with three teams each. In this group phase, each team will play two games and the two best placed will advance to the semifinals, to later play a final. Only the champion of each tournament will qualify for the Olympic Games.

Check the groups and venues:

Venue: Valencia (Spain)
Group A: Spain, Lebanon and Angola.
Group B: Finland, Poland and Bahamas.

Venue: Riga (Latvia)
Group A: Latvia, Georgia and the Philippines.
Group B: Brazil, Montenegro and Cameroon.

Venue: Piraeus (Greece)
Group A: Slovenia, New Zealand and Croatia.
Group B: Greece, Dominican Republic and Egypt.

Venue: San Juan (Puerto Rico)
Group A: Mexico, Lithuania and Ivory Coast.
Group B: Puerto Rico, Italy and Bahrain.

The four champion teams of the qualifiers will join the Paris 2024 draw that already includes France, the United States, Canada, South Sudan, Japan, Germany, Australia and Serbia.

Wemby is ready for a historical #Paris2024 campaign 🫡

— FIBA (@FIBA) June 28, 2024

The women’s South American also takes shape

The pre-Olympics heading to Paris 2024 are not FIBA’s only occupation these days. On Thursday, June 27, the group draw was held for the South American women’s basketball championship to be held in Chile between August 31 and September 7, at the Collective Sports Center of the Parque Estadio Nacional, in Santiago, a of the venues occupied in the past Pan American Games.

There will be nine teams from South America that will participate and will seek to dethrone Brazil as current champions after the 2022 tournament. For this year, only Peru will not present a team. The tournament will also provide three places for the AmeriCup 2025, which will also be held in Chile and which already has the host as one of the qualifiers.

In Group A were Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina, while Group B is made up of Venezuela, Paraguay, Ecuador and Colombia. The competition format will be all against all, with the two best teams in each group advancing to the semifinals and so on until the final. Meanwhile, the teams located in third and fourth place in each zone will compete for reclassification from fifth to eighth place.

Photo provided by the Chilean Basketball Federation.