cnn's don riddell is with us now. alright, don water. a lot of people.eople are wondering. i should say is, is this a snub or is this not a snub? >> well, guys, it depends on who you ask and maybe it depends on whether or not you believe in conspiracy theories, but certainly there are a lot of people who are arguing that it is a snub for example, she is just had a record-breaking college career. she's made an incredible start in the league as a rookie. her stats for a rookie off, the, charts? and of course we all know that she has single-handedly transformed the interest in the wnba in just a matter of weeks. she is no doubt about it. the most famous and arguably one of the most talented female basketball players in the world right now. and arguably she is one of the most famous female athletes in the world right now. then there is the other camp, which says, look, this is a team game. you can't make it all about just one player. remember she has just had an insane college season, no break leading into the wnba. now, she's on a grind of a schedule and ma

. >> she isn't giving up on her olympic dreams cnn's don riddell has his report kenya elisabetta madeistory by becoming the first iranian woman to win an olympic medal. >> and now she's on her way to paris, hoping for gold i'm targeting the gold mega impairments which is our main goal. and a wake up every day for the gold medal in paris and i'm trying my best and i put my hundred percent to achieve this goal. >> 20 taekwondo athlete won a bronze medal presenting iran in rio olympic games back in 20164 years later, she defected from her home country due to oppressive conditions, saying in a statement, quote, i am one of the millions of oppressed women in iran who they have been playing with for years. later that year, she competed in the tokyo olympics as part of the refugee team elisa will now be representing her new home of bulgaria in paris. >> of course, is harb leave your country and you face a lot of new things such a new language, new culture and the pupil is just har, is new star i have to start it from beginning i felt like home and i really liked the war will come and i was r

cnn's don riddell is here with us now and don, the tension is between clark and angel reese zero pointust an tery, jessica, which has transcended the sport we've been hearing a lot of diverse opinions over the last day or so, and i think it's okay to say that more than one thing can be true. >> the wnba has been around for 28 years. and although the league has had some wonderful players in that time only now is it capturing mainstream hype? and attention women's sports were already growing in popularity. but the arrival of the record-breaking college mega star, caitlin clark has just exploded interest in the game. whilst her indiana fever team has been struggling, her personal performance have largely justified the hype and she's been setting records for a rookie and has just been named as the rookie of the month as well. but our opponents are not making it easy and this flagrant foul by chicago's kennedy carter over the weekend has i think exposed some of the tensions within the league. look at angel reese applauding that fell. she and clark had a tempestuous rivalry as college athlet

it kicked off thursday in atlanta with holders argentina taking on canada well, sport's don riddell hashe d cells for us winning star for argentina on the opening night of the copper america here in atlanta, the rbc less they beat in canada by two goals to nil. >> it was tied in the first half. canada can be pretty proud of the way they played against the world's top team. but it was a different story in the second half as the albiceleste they scored early and then late in that second half and in-between, they had an absolute handful of chances 19 shots, 64% of the possession, it could have been a much bigger scoreline. canada need to figure out where they will go from here. but argentina, who are the reigning world and defending copper america champions have made a good start and there is much to build on the subplot to all of this. is that this is the final tournament for an argentine legend, angel de maria and it might prove to be the, final tournament for the captain arguably the greatest of all time, lionel messi, he has already indicated he's given clues that the last world cup th

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