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The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final was the last game of that year’s Olympic basketball tournament, and became one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With the ending mired in controversy, the Soviet Union defeated Team USA by one point, marking the latter's first ever loss in the event.
10 wrz 2022 · On September 9, 1972, the USA Olympic basketball team essentially won the gold-medal game twice before the Soviet Union sank the final basket. What happened? The head of international basketball kept putting time on the clock — illegally.
The United States unbeaten run at the Olympics, and a streak of seven straight gold medal triumphs, came to an end when the Soviet Union beat them in the tit...
Start Date: Aug 27, 1972. End Date: Sep 9, 1972 Gold: Soviet Union Silver: United States Bronze: Cuba. More league info
10 lip 2016 · There are 12 silver medals from the 1972 Munich Olympics packed away in a storage room inside the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. These medals have remained unclaimed for over 40 years. The IOC insists these medals belong to the 12 members of the US men’s basketball team, who lost to the Soviet Union 51-50.
The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the XI Olympic Winter Games (Japanese: 第11回オリンピック冬季競技大会, Hepburn: Dai Jūichi-kai Orinpikku Tōkikyōgi Taikai) and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 (Japanese: 札幌1972), were a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. It ...
They were the third Olympic Games and second Winter Olympics to be held in Japan, after the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. The games were succeeded by the 1998 Winter Paralympics from 5 to 14 March.
