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The Latvians, who alternately started the trio basketball tournament, played with increasing confidence in the playoffs, and broke the Russian basketball players in the final duels after a very persistent fight at 21:18.
Latvia has been waiting for the medal at the Summer Olympics for nine years, the last time the country’s Olympians managed to win the medal only at the Tokyo 2012 Olympics.
Agnis Čavars, Edgars Krūmins, Karlis Lasmanis and Nauris Miezis, who became champions after this victory, supplemented their dowry not only with gold medals. It is reported that impressive bonuses will also await the country’s new heroes.
Delfi.lv announces that basketball players, coaches and service personnel will share about 640,000. a bonus of up to EUR.
However, one of the players of the Latvian trio’s basketball team will remember the final duel not only because of the gold medals won, but also because of an extremely painful injury.
Midway through the final duel, one of the leaders of the Latvian team, E.Krūmins, injured his leg and was forced to leave the field, but even in great pain, he did not refuse to return to the park.
A few minutes later, he stepped onto the parquet again, but after another failed contact, E. Krūminis left the field again, this time until the end of the duel.
Already at the end of the final match, it was clear that the injury suffered by this basketball player was more serious than it appeared at first glance.
Uldis Strautmanis, a Latvian journalist working in Tokyo, reported that the player had a broken left leg during the final.
This means that E.Krūmins played part of the final, which turned golden, with a broken leg.
Lrytas.lt Remember that the bronze medals in the men’s basketball trio tournament were won by the Serbian basketball players, considered the favorites of the tournament, who defeated the Belgians in the small final 21:10.
