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Players who might be future Olympians will get a chance later this month to compete with the womens basketball team that the United States will be sending to the Rio Games.The USA Basketball womens select team was announced Monday. This 11-player group will train alongside the national team on July 23-24 in Los Angeles, then play an exhibition game against the Olympians on July 25. The location of the first practice has yet to be determined. The second practice and the game will be held at the University of Southern Californias Galen Center in Los Angeles.The national team staff will coach both groups, and head coach Geno Auriemma is very familiar with two members of the select team: former UConn standouts Stefanie Dolson (Washington Mystics) and Kiah Stokes (New York Liberty).Each of them has a WNBA teammate on the select team, as they join Washingtons Kahleah Copper and New Yorks Sugar Rodgers. One other WNBA team has two select-team players: the Dallas Wings, with Odyssey Sims and Aerial Powers.The other select-team members are Kelsey Bone (Phoenix Mercury), Natasha Howard (Minnesota Lynx), Jewell Loyd (Seattle Storm), Tiffany Mitchell (Indiana Fever) and Elizabeth Williams (Atlanta Dream).Sims has prior experience playing for the national team: She was part of the squad that won gold in the 2014 world championship. She, Loyd and Dolson were among the finalists for this Olympic team.At least one of the 2016 Olympians will not return for 2020: Tamika Catchings is retiring after this WNBA season. At least a few others will likely age out of Olympic spots over the next four years.This is a really good group of young and talented athletes, Auriemma said of the select team. Having them train against our USA national team will not only help us prepare for Rio, but it will also give us a chance to evaluate them for future USA Basketball teams.After playing the select team, the Olympic squad will play three additional exhibition games -- all on the East Coast -- before going to Brazil. The U.S. team will face France on July 27 at Delawares Bob Carpenter Center, the former home gym of Olympian Elena Delle Donne (Chicago Sky).On July 29, the United States will play Canada at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Connecticut. On July 31, the Americans will face Australia at Madison Square Garden, home of the New York Liberty.The U.S. team will open Olympic group play against Senegal on Aug. 7 in Brazil. David Dahl Jersey . Already owning gold from competition in Vancouver in 2010, Loch posted a combined four-run time of 3:27.526. That included a track-record third run of 51. Jonathan Lucroy Jersey . 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The countrys most successful womens golfer, Karrie Webb, was missing for a different reason -- she failed to qualify.No. 1-ranked Jason Day and Marc Leishman (Zika virus) and Adam Scott (scheduling) said they wouldnt play in Rio, leaving the 81st-ranked Hend and No. 86 Fraser to play in golfs return to the Olympics after 112 years. With all the other major pullouts, including Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy, Hend and Fraser go into the Olympic tournament ranked 27th and 28th in the 60-man field.Minjee Lee (No. 14) and Su Oh (No. 41) will play on the womens team for Australia, leaving Webb, a seven-time LPGA major winner and World Golf Hall of Fame member, on the sidelines after her ranking of 58 failed to see her qualify.Webb, 41, has told fellow golfers of her excitement at playing at the Olympics since Sydney hosted the Games in 2000, and was part of the push to get golf back into the Olympics. She needed a strong finish at last weeks U.S. Womens Open -- top 10 or better -- and hope that Oh missed the cut in order for her to overtake Oh in the rankings.Oh missed the cut, but former No. 1-ranked Webb finished at 5-over, tied for 46th, and improved her ranking by just one place.Im sad for Karrie Webb not fulfilling her dream of representing her country in the Olys as she is the greatest golfer Aussie has ever had, American golfer Meg Mallon tweeted after it became official that Webb had missed out.Lee and Oh won Karrie Webb Scholarships in 2013 and 2014 to aid in their development in the game. The $10,000 amount for each was ffunded by Webb.ddddddddddddhe one side benefit from Webb missing out on the Olympics is that she might not retire, and perhaps try to stay in the hunt for the 2020 Tokyo Games.I said I was going to retire when I was 35, and Im 41 now, so still going, Webb said before the Womens Australian Open earlier this year. I think when youre 18, 30 seems like its a long way away, but from experience it comes around pretty quickly. I dont know what the future holds for me as far as full-time playing. Im concentrating this year on a full schedule and hopefully making the Olympic team and then just re-assessing where things are at the end of the year.Hend, who will turn 43 during the final round of the 72-hole stroke-play event in Rio, said hes ready to make the most of his opportunity.Ive never been to Brazil and ... Im looking forward to pulling on the green and gold as it will be something different, he said.The Perth, Western Australia-born Lee won her second LPGA Tour tournament in April in just her second year as a professional. Oh, also 20, has second- and eighth-place finishes on the LPGA Tour this year.When my parents brought my big sister, my little brother and me to Australia when I was eight years old, I didnt even play golf, said Oh, who was born in Busan, South Korea. They could never in their wildest dreams have imagined one of us would represent Australia in the Olympic Games. Its a dream come true for my whole family.Former British Open winner and now television broadcaster Ian Baker-Finch will lead the golf section of the Australian team at Rio. ' ' '