France, Belarus, Spain, China and Turkey all earned spots at the Olympics by qualifying at the last chance women's basketball tournament this weekend. Belarus earned the final bid in the Olympics after beating Korea 56-39 in the fifth-place game on Sunday. Turkey, France and Belarus are in the other group with Australia, Japan and host Brazil. Spain and China will join Canada, Serbia and Senegal in the same group as the U.S., which has won the past five Olympic gold medals. The other four teams qualified on Friday by winning their quarterfinal games.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 19, 2016 16:07 UTC