Wednesday during, France and Spain's Olympic Quarterfinal game a "Punch Heard Round the World" was thrown.
The flailing punch from French forward Nicholas Batum to Spanish guard Juan Carlos Navarro strangely didn't result in an automatic ejection...from the game that is.
After the game, Batum told Yahoo Sports he did it to give Navarro a good reason to flop. Something the French accused the entire Spain team of doing in the game before today's Bronze Medal game. In that game on Monday, the French say Spain threw the game to keep themselves from playing the U.S in the finals.
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Not sure we believe that and it will be interesting to see what happens as a result of it.
Here's an animated GIF of the play in question.
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