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September 09, 2010
Russian Coach: Soviets Won Fairly in Munich: The American coach of the current Russian basketball team said that the Soviet Union won legitimately over the U.S. in the 1972 Munich Olympics -- a game in which they got three last-second chances and the U.S. declined its silver medals in protest. "I hate to say it as an American, but it looks like the Russians were right," David Blatt said. "The American team was not cheated. Funny things happened, but in reality it was fair."
posted by rcade to basketball at 01:54 PM - 6 comments
Damn Commie!
posted by BornIcon at 01:46 PM on September 09, 2010
Coack K "cried" after the loss? Probably was out playing baseball.
Next you'll tell us the Soviets were a bunch of pros.
posted by jjzucal at 04:37 PM on September 09, 2010
Well, if Blatt was trying to psyche out the U.S. team for today's game against Russia, it didn't work.
posted by TheQatarian at 05:21 PM on September 09, 2010
I bet those 2008 Chinese gymnasts were old enough to compete too.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 06:11 PM on September 09, 2010
For clarification, it was Blatt that cried, not Coach K.
The second replay should have ended it. Complete BS.
posted by dviking at 11:44 PM on September 09, 2010
I wasn't alive when this happened, but I've seen numerous stories about it over the years. First an illegal timeout was supposedly called, then the clock was supposedly not reset; you had referees who didn't even speak the same language...it was a complete farce. They were going to keep playing until the Soviets won.
Of course, the USA got revenge in 1980 with the Miracle On Ice. I'd consider that pretty good payback.