
July 21, 2012 - 8:23am
One week before the Opening Ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympic Games, Brazil's hopes for a return to the medal stand in women's basketball in London suffered a major setback Friday, as star wing Iziane Castro Marques was cut from the senior women's Olympic team for disciplinary reasons.
The Confederacão Brasileira de Basketball (CBB), the governing body for men's and women's Brazilian national team basketball, issued a terse announcement Friday, confirming Castro Marques' dismissal from the team. Translated, the announcement reads: