The USOPC announced the finalists for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame, Class of 2022, and the 1996 U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team and Dawn Staley are among the finalists in the team and individual category, respectively.

On Oct. 1, 2000, Ruthie Bolton (Sacramento, Calif.) stood on a podium at the Sydney Olympic Games wearing a red jersey with USA and the number six on the front. “I wore that (USA Basketball) jersey yesterday,” said Bolton, who earned her second Olympic gold medal at the games as a...

Twenty years ago today, on the morning of May 25, 1995, 18 of the best women’s basketball players in the country were sitting in their respective dorm rooms at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, anxiously awaiting word on their fate.