Olympics 2020 - Basketball

In Saitama Prefecture

Basketball has been on the schedule for the Summer Olympics since 1936. In 2020, the discipline returns for its 20th Olympiad. And it will be accompanied by a variant of the sport in 3x3. Between Saitama and Odaiba, find out how these events will unfold.

Invented in the United States in 1891, basketball became a demonstration sport at the 1904 Saint-Louis Games. This rapid evolution demonstrates the popularity of basketball.

It will become an Olympic sport at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. At that time only for men, women's basketball followed 40 years later and became an Olympic discipline at the Montreal Olympics in 1976.

During the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, basketball matches will be held from July 26 to August 9.

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