A * * * There will be 12 teams participating in the competition. The allocation of these 12 places is as follows: host 1, 7 direct places (2 in Europe and America, 2 in Asia, Africa and Oceania 1), and 4 will be decided by losing.
Seven direct places will be decided by the men's basketball World Cup ranking. Men's World Cup, the top two in Europe, the top two in the United States, the top two in Asia, the top two in Africa and the top one in Oceania, can get seven qualifications and directly enter the Olympic men's basketball competition.
Origin and development:
Basketball originated in America 189 1. It was invented by Dr. james naismith, a physical education teacher at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Because of the interest, fitness value and educational concept contained in basketball, once it was invented, it spread and popularized rapidly in all continents of the world. However, basketball has been an official Olympic event for 45 years.
1904, at the third Olympic Games held in St. Louis, USA, two American teams played basketball for the first time. 1936, at the 1 1 Berlin Olympic Games, the men's basketball team was finally listed as an official Olympic event. The women's basketball didn't become an official event until197621Montreal Olympic Games.
Looking back on the development of Olympic basketball, Bostankovic, former secretary general of FIBA, once said, "1936 should be a masterpiece in the history of basketball." Being able to board the Olympic Games is undoubtedly a milestone in the development of basketball.
At the 1 1 Berlin Olympic Games, * * 2 1 teams from North America, South America, Asia, Europe and Africa participated in the basketball competition, which became the largest team event in the Berlin Olympic Games at that time, showing the great charm of basketball.
The eligibility rules are as follows:
First, 24 teams will be divided into 6 groups according to the order of drawing lots, with 4 teams in each group. Then, during the group match, each team will compete with the other three teams. The winner of each game will get 2 points, the draw will be 1 point, and the loser will get 0 points. Next, the top two in the group stage will enter the single elimination stage. In the single knockout stage, the top two of the eight group matches will enter the top 16, and then compete in the form of single knockout until four promotion places are finally produced.