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Olympic’s defending champions and world top-ranked United States Routed China with a 105-62 victory in the ongoing women’s basketball tournament at the 2016 Rio Games on Sunday evening to advance to the quarterfinal unchallenged and unbeaten.
According to NBC Connecticut, 2012 WNBA MVP Tina Charles poured in 12 of her 18 points in the opening quarter, and the Americans easily wrapped up the national team’s 46th consecutive victory its quest for a sixth straight Olympic gold medal. The New York Liberty star player outscored the Tom Maher-headed basketball squad by herself in the opening period as they stormed China with a 32-9 lead.

The world No. 1 women’s basketball team has not been beaten by China in the eight matches that they met in the
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