In a showdown in the top half of the women's basketball quarterfinals at the Tokyo Olympics, the
Belgium Women's Basketball
Easily beat
Spain Women's Basketball
, successfully advancing to the semifinals.
Belgium was quick to get into the swing of things at the start of the game, going on an 8-2 run to take the lead. However, in the last minute and a half of the first quarter, Belgium failed to score any more points, and Spain seized the opportunity to score 7 points in a row to erase the difference. In the second quarter, Spain's offense had problems and only scored 11 points in one quarter. At the end of the half, Belgium led by 11 points.
In the second half, Spain was still unable to solve the problem of offense, and scored only 2 points in most of the quarter, Belgium took advantage of the situation to extend the difference to more than twenty points. The game lost its suspense at the end of the quarter, and the Belgian team finally beat the Spanish team by a large margin, advancing to the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games.
Belgium's all-around play and solid defense were the keys to this victory, while Spain failed to form an effective counterattack due to a sluggish offensive end. Belgium will face France in the semi-finals for a place in the final.
