Caitlin Clark, the most popular women’s basketball player in the nation, has been left off the 2024 U.S. Olympic women’s basketball roster. This shocking exclusion comes despite her record-breaking performances and massive fan base, igniting controversy and disappointment among basketball enthusiasts.
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Clark, known for her thrilling long-range shots and pinpoint passes, has captivated audiences and earned numerous accolades, including WNBA rookie of the month honors. However, USA Basketball has decided not to include her in the Olympic lineup. Social media posts show the success she has had on the court, and leads one to wonder why she was left off the roster:
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Caitlin Clark put on a clinic vs. the Mystics to become the second rookie in WNBA History to drop 30+ PTS, 5+ REB, 5+ AST, & 5+ 3PM in a game!
30 PTS | 8 REB | 7 3PM | 6 AST | 4 STL#WelcometotheW | Commissioner’s Cup presented by… pic.twitter.com/8WfcqvCzTn
— WNBA (@WNBA) June 8, 2024
Caitlin Clark demonstrated an all around game to win @Kia Rookie of the Month 🏀
Clark notched 17.6 PPG, 5.1 RPG and 6.6 APG in May to lead first year players#WelcometotheW pic.twitter.com/D2mD7A8c5e
— WNBA (@WNBA) June 3, 2024
Clark, currently a standout player for the Indiana Fever, has brought immense attention to women’s basketball. Her selection could have significantly boosted the visibility of the U.S. women’s team at the Olympics, a team that, despite its unparalleled success, often receives less media attention compared to other sports.
In a recent game, Clark tied a WNBA rookie record with seven 3-pointers and scored 30 points in front of 20,333 fans in Washington, D.C. This marked the largest WNBA crowd in 17 years, demonstrating her immense popularity and drawing power. Her Indiana Fever’s game attracted more than double the crowd compared to a Chicago Sky game held in the same venue the previous night. Despite holding all the major collegiate scoring records for women’s basketball and leading the NCAA in assists in her final year, Caitlin Clark was omitted from the U.S. Women’s Basketball Team. This announcement has left many fans and analysts baffled. Clark was invited to attend Team USA training camp in April but was unable to participate due to her team’s trip to the NCAA Tournament final.
The current roster consists of players many Americans have never heard of. This raises questions about the selection criteria and whether political considerations, such as players’ attitudes towards the National Anthem and their country, played a role in the decision-making process. For months, speculation about Clark’s potential inclusion on the Olympic team has been rife. Lisa Leslie, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, had previously stated that Clark “one hundred percent” deserved a spot on Team USA, reflecting a widely held belief in her right to represent the country.
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Why am o not surprised.
The reason they are not including her is because they decided to go with all trans women…
Wrong color. The left will destroy her career before it even gets started.
If they do, and they will try, at least she lives a good life and has millions to live on.
Of course, she is excluded. She is Caucasian, an excellent player, a cooperative teammate, and a pleasant person. That sort of thing cannot be permitted to represent this corrupt, fascist country. We must have a roster full of racists and mentally unstable spoiled brats. That will be the true representation of this country.
I cannot fathom the degree to which the USA is the laughingstock of the world.
And straight
Now that’s just downright hate speech right there!
/Sarc, I hope VDMA ?
Great points otherwise….
Truth speech is not hate speech.
There are 3 white women, plus Taurasi, on the team. Coached by a white woman.
All woke Dems.
Well, if this stands, the women’s USA Olympic basketball team will be loved as much as its soccer team. I certainly will be rooting against them.
THIS……..should surprise absolutely nobody. Full stop.
great, now i wont be tempted to watch the Rev 3:9 taken over circus
Sorry Caitlin. Ur the wrong color.
That’s what she deserves, trying to be better than those that should be better than her. SHAME ON HER!
Well, if the USA Olympic team is filled with anti-white America-haters, I can see how Caitlyn wouldn’t fit in.
They only want players who hate their country
Racist black lesbians are trying to drive her out of the sport because she is better than they are.
I hope they lose in the first round
Let me guess, not dark enough?
Official WNBA racist xenophobia
You can be damn sure if she was transgender she would have been selected.
Well you see…it’s a …BECAUSE SHE IS WHITE. AKA reverse racism by this dumb sport.
It isn’t “reverse racism.” It’s just plain old ugly disgusting racism.
Brittany Griner and 41 year old Diana Taurasi made the team. I will not be watching.
It’s simple, she’s a Straight, White, Female….we can’t be promoting that……..
She is white, Christian and straight – everything leftists despise.
Praying God will both protect and guide this young lady.
White privilege
Clark has plenty of time to make the next (2028?) Olympics, as well as a few more after that, barring injury or retiring.
Those folks who have a sore A$$ with Clark being on the team Now would be apoplectic if she were selected for this team, causing more hate (unearned) and dissention among her “teammates” who would likely engage in petty politics, i.e. not feed her the ball, etc.
I’m voting for letting Clark mature in the ways of WNBA basketball, and find strategies to deal with those hatchet jobs like Chennedy Carter.
This will prepare her for the next Olympics, and the brutally aggressive play of the Communist Bloc. I will watch the 2024 Olympics “Ladies?” Basketball to see how they deal with the permitted aggressiveness of team against the U.S. My guess is the crybabies will come out.
Tell that flowery garbage to the person who has been cheated out of an earned position and has no idea and no promise that she will improve with “maturity” or will ever get a second chance. If their hatred prevails, she will be badly injured…deliberately.
What communist bloc? Bruh catch up. We won the cold war and the Berlin wall came down in 1989
Well in truth, Clark is not qualified to represent Bummerica in the Olympics. She isn’t black, gay, trans, anti-semetic, a Hamas supporter, and apparently not even a fire-breathing leftist Demon-crat. She may not even be woke! Oh the horrors! Athletes should be a microcosm of their country to represent it well. In Bummerica, that old require having only low-life, vile, filthy, whoring trash on the Olympic team.
She needs purple hair and some bacon socks– she’d be first pick.
She should consider herself fortunate—Paris Olympics maybe a replay of Munich 1972.
By excluding Clark the idiot American IOC has fuaranteed that many people who otherwise would have been interested do not care. The stupidity of the overall negtive WNBA reaction is, when they had a clear pathway to relevance and importance, everything they had been crying out for, pushing the WNBA back into the irrelevancy they previously occupied. Sad but liberals do stupid things and often cause their own finish with their own hand.
The only answer to it is dont watch the olympics…they claim they want to grow their game, their actions say otherwise..These women are so unlikable, kind of like the US soccer team
Look at the bright side, now we won’t have to waste time watching woman’s Olympic basketball.