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Watch Canada face the Netherlands in the women's wheelchair basketball semis

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Click the video player above to watch Canada take on the defending champion Netherlands in the women's wheelchair basketball semifinal.

Action begins at 3:30 p.m. ET from Bercy Arena at the Paris Paralympics. Canada beat Germany 71-53 in the quarterfinals. If they get past the Dutch, the Canadians will face the U.S.

in the gold-medal game. Otherwise, China awaits in the bronze-medal contest. The Canadian women have not reached the Paralympic podium since 2004, when a bronze medal in Athens ended a run of three straight golds.

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