1972 Olympics Gold Medal Basketball Game

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I had heard the story, but just saw an Olympics video recap tape that showed what happened. I'm suddenly about as pissed off as I've been in recent memory. What the hell was that? How in the world did they get away with that? The referees' lives must have been threatened by someone, because no human being in an authority position would ever let their authority be undermined like it was that night by the Chairman. Was it gambling related? I can't believe that happened. Anybody want to explain what it was like watching it live? I had not yet been born at the time.
 

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International sports politics at its finest....I have very faint memories of that Olympiad, the tragedy that surrounded that Olympics , the basketball team etc...

It left me thinking the communist countries were pure evil...scary really...I still remember the images of the guerrilla's peaking out the sports dormitories...I remember Jim McKay talking about "guerrilla's" and I thought they were real guerrilla's, who had the athletes held hostage..
 

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