LThe Belgium team has never won gold. Not the money. Led by a player on her way to becoming the MVP of the tournament, Emma Meesseman, the Belgians defeated France (63-67) to meet with history and they will face Spain (20 hours, La2).
The players of Jean-Aime Toupane they were knocked out in the first quarter (18 to 8), something had just passed over them: a Belgian train. Led by a relentless Emma Meesseman (24 points) and an accurate Julie Vanloo (20 points) the Belgians were a whirlwind difficult to appease. They arrived at the break dominating by 14 (44-30) and kept at bay a French team that could not lower the cushion of points from its rivals and that suffered too much from the casualties of its two stars: Marine Johannes and Gabby Williams.
The Belgians reached the last quarter ten up on the scoreboard. The French Revolution came in those 10 minutes. The galas were placed at two points with possession to tie and Marine Fathoux had the ball in her hands to blow up the match but ran into the Liskens wall and Belgium sentenced from the free kick.
Both teams had met in the semifinal without losing a game. Although France knew what it was to suffer, for Belgium everything had been a walk of roses, or in this case, of tulips. Emma Meesseman already warned after becoming the first player in history to achieve a triple double who wanted to continue making history towards the final. And so she did. He was relentless and every time finery threatened to spoil the party, he took responsibility. With victory under his arm, the battle for gold is served.
