This is the first installment of a three-part series that encapsulates the Oklahoma women’s basketball team’s trip to France for their 2022 Summer Tour.
CANNES, France — Tomorrow morning, the Oklahoma women’s basketball team will pack its bags and make the 275-mile drive northwest to Lyon after completing three days on the Cote D’Azur. A period of 72 hours spent in the Mediterranean Sea, exploring Cannes and an excursion to Monaco has come to an end, concluding the first part of the Sooners’ Summer Tour in France.
To get to France, the Sooners underwent a long 5,500-mile trek that started in Oklahoma City on Wednesday morning and went through Dallas and London before arriving in Nice, France, late Thursday morning. On the first day, the Sooners arrived in Nice and traveled by bus to Cannes. The traveling party had lunch at the private beach of the Hotel Barrière Le Majestic Cannes before sharing and exploring all that the city had to offer.