Two members of Mali’s women’s basketball workforce duked it out Monday following their newest loss in what has thus far been a winless look within the women’s World Cup.
The temporary, caught-on-camera scuffle occurred within the postgame media space after the workforce was defeated 81-68 by Serbia, video posted online and social media shows.
One participant even tried to attach on just a few haymakers earlier than different teammates rushed in to interrupt up the ugly state of affairs, based on the footage that was captured by Serbian media throughout a participant interview.
FIBA, the worldwide basketball governing physique, has opened an investigation into the incident between ballers Salimatou Kourouma and Kamite Elisabeth Dabou.
Both players are averaging lower than 10 factors per sport because the woeful Mali workforce has misplaced every of their 4 video games by a median of 30 factors.
Earlier within the tourney, Mali misplaced by an astounding 60 factors to Australia.
The African nation initially didn’t even have the chance to compete on the world stage, however was a late entry to switch Nigeria, which had administrative points.
Mali wraps up their match Tuesday towards Canada.
If they win it might be the primary World Cup victory for the nation since 2010 when the workforce went 1-4.
With Post wires
