{"id":78640,"date":"2026-09-13T15:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/usa-defend-fiba-womens-world-cup-title-after-early-scare-against-france\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T15:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T20:55:48","slug":"usa-defend-fiba-womens-world-cup-title-after-early-scare-against-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/usa-defend-fiba-womens-world-cup-title-after-early-scare-against-france\/","title":{"rendered":"USA defend Fiba Women\u2019s World Cup title after early scare against France"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>USA overcame a 14-point France lead in first half<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Breanna Stewart scores 22 points; Caitlin Clark gets 12<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Defending champions USA fell behind early but stormed back past \u2060France 97-79 on Sunday to win the Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/aug\/11\/usa-france-womens-basketball-olympic-final-paris-2024-result\">In a rematch of the 2024 \u2060Olympic final<\/a>, \u2060the \u200bAmerican women came out on top once more, earning their fifth consecutive World Cup title \u2060and stretching their impressive unbeaten run at Olympics or World Cups to 20 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/sep\/13\/usa-fiba-womens-world-cup-france-breanna-stewart-caitlin-clark\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA overcame a 14-point France lead in first half Breanna Stewart scores 22 points; Caitlin Clark gets 12 Defending champions USA fell behind early but stormed back past \u2060France 97-79 on Sunday to win the Women\u2019s World Cup. In a rematch of the 2024 \u2060Olympic final, \u2060the \u200bAmerican women came out on top once more, &#8230; <a title=\"USA defend Fiba Women\u2019s World Cup title after early scare against France\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/usa-defend-fiba-womens-world-cup-title-after-early-scare-against-france\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USA defend Fiba Women\u2019s World Cup title after early scare against France\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}