Nowadays, the statement of classics has become a statement from coaches, athletes and journalists that “basketball (football, hockey) is able to play everyone”. Georgia’s victory over Spain, the loss of France to Israel, the success of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the game against Greece, including Poland’s victory over Slovenia more or less, if not sensation, at least quite a great surprise status. It should be borne in mind, however, that this is just a group tournament where the obvious favorites have the right to even one, but also two stages that will not prevent them from participating in decisive games.
There is also a tendency that the team is able to sow and take care of it with a very nervous end of the game in the lead with a 20 -point lead. Previously, such cases and unexpected turns during the game were far less and usually the victories were won by those who were stronger on paper, namely the dominant random or teams. However, one sensation occasionally happened, sometimes with a scandal flavor.
Munich for three seconds
Since 1936 in Berlin, when basketball was included in the Olympic Games program, only US players had become the winners – despite the fact that the Olympics could not be sent to hardened professionals and had to be limited to the student team. Everything testified that in Munich, 1972, Americans will be able to once again in the neck of gold medals and, on the top of the pedestal, sing the national anthem The Star-Spangled Banner.
At that time, 16 national teams participated in the games, and only two of each sub -group won the right to fight for medals. The US team got more to the crucial matches than convincingly, scoring seven wins and scoring +230 points. The second sub -group dominated
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