Seb and her teammates are en route from Istanbul to Rio today.
The team was interviewed after their last practice at home. This is what Seb had to say [google translation]:
Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu: "From the first match Everything I believe to be very good"
"We had a very long and intensive preparation period. To see light at the end of the tunnel in certain moments, we feel that we are too far away. Finally, now that the time has come, at the end of watches us go to Rio.
At the moment I can not express my excitement. to be representing my country, to be able to reflect on the field as a team, our work so far ... I believe in my team. I feel we can achieve good things there.
In particular, we made a serious condition install our second camp. As a result, we will have a very busy day in Rio traffic. A study mainly focused on the process of thinking about this condition and have gained significantly in strength. Of course, this in the work of recent fatigue comes out, but I think we have over our state.
Physical situation is out of our right to the top, we're going to a very nice time in Rio. From the first day I believe everything will be very good. "
This is Turkey's schedule in the group phase (Pacific Time):
- Sat Aug 6, 8:00 am, vs France
- Sun Aug 7, 1:30 pm, vs Australia
- Tue Aug 9, 1:45 pm, vs Japan
- Thu Aug 11, 8:15 am, vs Belarus
- Sat Aug13, 11:30 am, vs Brazil,
The top four teams in each of two groups (USA is in the other one) will advance to the quarter-finals on Tue Aug 16.
Here is the complete schedule of the women's basketball games with the times in your local time.
I don't expect that Turkish women's basketball games will be shown on American TV, but NBC is providing a live stream of all the action. You can find the links here, day by day.
