The International Basketball Federation, or FIBA, has fined the Turkish Basketball Federation, or TBF, 3,200 Swiss Francs for interrupting a performance by female dancers during the World Basketball Championship, the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review reports.<\/p>\n
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The New York Times quoted the dance team\u2019s coach, Elena Rozhkova, as saying her team \u201cwas pulled from the past three Turkey games for a political reason.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Basketball\u2019s international governing body admitted to the daily that cultural adjustments were made. Apart from Turkey\u2019s matches, the United States-Iran game played in Istanbul\u2019s Abdi \u0130<\/span>pek\u00e7<\/span>i Arena saw cheerleaders perform with less revealing outfits.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt is a balance between respecting the culture and making sure basketball delivers all the pace, excitement and entertainment that goes with the World Championship,\u201d FIBA Secretary-General Patrick Baumann was quoted as saying in the daily. \u201cIf it needs a little bit of adjustment, that is fine with us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TBF officials, however, denied claims there were political issues behind the cheerleaders\u2019 no-show in Ankara.<\/p>\n The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[14598,14599,15677,15678,15679,15680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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