With Chris Finch announcing his final 12 to represent Team GB at the Olympics yesterday, many of the players took to Twitter to express their joy (after they’d met the Prime Minister of course).
Check out the reactions below in our ‘tweetcap’ of the day!
The GB captain congratulated all the players who made it and expressed his own delight.
Congrats to all the lads that have been named on the @gbbasketball team for #London2012 Olympics. I for one am extremely #honoured
— Drew Sullivan (@drewsullivan8) July 5, 2012
KJ tweeted a picture of himself in the Olympic kit with how honoured he feels (we’ll ignore the American spelling!)
I’m going to be a OLYMPIAN…Words don’t describe how happy I am…I’m truly honored an blessed!! #London2012 #TeamGByfrog.com/h7kf9efaj
— Kyle Johnson (@SmoothKJ88) July 5, 2012
Proud Scot Kieron Achara was inundated with congratulations and made sure he got the sponsor name-drop in there!
So thrilled to be named in the Standard LifeGB Mens basketball team for Olympics. #readyandfocused #goteamgb
— Kieron Achara (@KieronAchara) July 5, 2012
As the youngest player on the squad, Lawrence will be representing for the aspiring young player after coming out of nowhere last summer to take the team by storm.
Feel very privileged that I will be attending the 2012 London Olympics as the youngest player of Team GB basketball.Made it!!
— Andrew (@Andrewcofc04) July 5, 2012
An extremely proud Clark expressed his pleasure.
Proud to say that im offically part of the @TeamGB basketball team! Amazing honour! #London2012
— Dan Clark (@Dan00Clark) July 5, 2012
Robert Archibald instead decided to congratulate fellow Scot Kieron Achara on making the squad. Classy move from the GB veteran.
Congrats to @KieronAchara on making the final GB men’s basketball squad. Well deserved for all his hard work. #ProudScot
— Robert Archibald (@RobertArchibald) July 5, 2012
Eric had to resort to Twitlonger to get his message of appreciation out.
It is such a great honor to part of the @TeamGB Basketball team competing in this summers Olympics. Thanks for … m.tmi.me/sWWRY
— Eric Boateng (@EricBoateng) July 5, 2012
Get closer to the GB team during the Olympics by following them on Twitter, links to their accounts are below (Mike Lenzly and Joel Freeland, who seems to have recently shut down his account, are the only guys not on Twitter right now!):
GB Basketball | @gbbasketball
Kieron Achara | @KieronAchara
Robert Archibald | @RobertArchibald
Eric Boateng | @EricBoateng
Dan Clark | @Dan00Clark
Luol Deng | @LuolDeng9
Kyle Johnson | @smoothkj88
Andrew Lawrence | @Andrewcofc04
Pops Mensah-Bonsu | @PopsMBonsu
Nate Reinking | @NateReinking12
Drew Sullivan | @drewsullivan8
Women’s Team
Dominique Allen | @dom_allen12
Rose Anderson | @rose_anderson5
Kim Butler | @kimbutler42
Stef Collins | @stefcollins6
Temi Fagbenle | @temifagbenle
Chantelle Handy | @chan2211
Jo Leedham | @joey_leedham13
Julie Page | @juliepage10
Natalie Stafford | @nataliestafford
Azania Stewart | @azania13
Rachael Vanderwal | @rachvanderwal
Jenaya Wade-Fray | @jaywadefray
And if you don’t already, of course you can follow @Hoopsfix for all the latest news and information around this summer’s Olympics!
Photo Credit: Mansoor Ahmed Photography
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