DUBAI: France’s defeat to the US in Sunday’s FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup final continued a remarkable recent pattern between two countries that have now met in three major basketball finals across the men’s and women’s game in just over two years. The US came from 14 points down to beat France 97-79 in Berlin, securing a fifth consecutive World Cup title and extending their winning streak in the competition to 36 games. For France, a best-ever World Cup finish was the latest sign of the co
