Steve Serio leads wheelchair basketball with a triple-double in day one

Crew GB begins wheelchair basketball with two huge wins

Nice Britain‘s males’s wheelchair basketball group began pool play with an enormous 76-55 win over Germany. Gregg Warburton led all scorers with 24 factors within the win.

“There are some actually nice groups. The match is completely stacked. Seven different world-class groups. I really imagine the one group that may beat us is ourselves. So long as we care for the little issues, management ourselves, take care of ourselves, we’ll be good come the tip,” Warburton stated.

ParalympicsGB was victorious on the ladies’s aspect of wheelchair basketball, as effectively. Nice Britain gained 69-34 over Spain, with Jade Atkin main her group with 19 factors in her Paralympic debut.

“It feels wonderful. I really feel such a very good vibe. I am so glad proper now. It was such a very good sport to begin with. I labored for this second and right here I’m. I lastly bought right here,” Atkin stated after the win. “It is wonderful to have such expertise with a number of athletes that each one have the identical mentality as you. We’re all right here for a medal. All of us have to work onerous. It is good to have that in a togetherness atmosphere.”

In different motion, the Folks’s Republic of China’s ladies’s wheelchair basketball group had eight steals of their 70-65 win over Canada. Within the last sport of the night time, Australia’s males had an enormous lead early over the Netherlands. However the Dutch gamers stormed again within the fourth quarter, and gained the sport 66-55.