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Diana Leo Gandega (born 2 June 1983 in Paris) is a French-Malian women's basketball player. Gandega competed for Mali at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she scored 15 points in 5 games, including 8 points in the first match, a 4-point loss to New Zealand. [1] Her younger sister Touty Gandega is also a basketball player. [2]
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