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Russia deserves no respect to this day!

When I watched this live, I assumed that IBA was the Soviet coach; he had that "face" of an old Russian! 😅

the appeal panel should of had Switerland on it at least it would of been fair

Jones is a disgrace to the truth

All the extra chances given to the Soviet team resemble the “absentee ballots” that the democrats unleashed on election night in all swing states to give Biden the needed electoral votes for the presidency!

Just think, if Walton and Dr. J had played the USA would've won by 30.

They're such cry babies. Soviets beat them fair and square. Dough Collins knows nothing about international basketball rules. Everything he said was false.

FIBA was going to give this game to the Soviets any way they could. And that's what happened. Look at what time that game was played, midnight!

this was from bud greenspan's series "the olympiad"

mr fucking jones was the culprit from the uk who screwed us over

that story didn't tell the full picture .... The Soviets had some genuine issues once the umpire decided to stop the game with 1 s still to play. Soviets time out request to the bench was sent but not acted on quickly enough by the bench officials i.e. blow horn between the two free throws, and when they decided to replay the 3s the first time, only 1s was put back on the clock and so the siren went off early... There seemed to be a whole heap of errors made from many people, but not really any from the coaches or players of both sides. Although why the US decided to not defend the inbound on the last successful pass was ridiculously dumb, as it gave the Russians a clear passing lane, without which the play was near impossible in that era of the game. All in all, my understanding is US should have won the gold. Timeouts being missed are frustrating but still an occasional part of the game even today, so play on from that perspective. The umpire who stopped the game with 1s to go, opened up the whole can of worms, but the biggest failure was the the FIBA official who came from his seat in the grandstand to overrule the bench and umpires who were going to award the US with the win before he bullied them and over-ruled. He had zero authority or right to do so however, and should not have used his hierarchy to 'pull rank' so to speak. I understand the FIBA official lived to admit his wrongdoing, apologised and regretted it for many years. Also the big guy who made the winning shot, was a very humble and much loved guy who built great relationships with many of the US players and coaches before he tragically died in his 40s from cancer ...

Tom Burelson should have been on in bound pass!

Le tête de l'entraîneur US ...

Even if the officials were correct in putting 3 secs back up the first time, these violations still occurred: 1. Doug Collins lay-up was goal-tending. In international play, you're allowed to knock ball off rim, but Soviet player slapped ball as it came off backboard. 2. Illegal timeout by Soviets. 3. Inbounder steps over baseline on his long pass before ball is touched. 4. Watch closely: Belov walks with ball before his shot. Steps sideways twice.

congrats to ussr ..

That was an intentional very dangerous defensive hard foul from below with the offensive player in the air on way to the basket. Therefore, it should have been after the free throws, USA keeps the ball. That was the first cheat. The illegal time out, second cheat. The first additional 3 seconds, the third cheat. The second additional 3 seconds, the fourth cheat. Reply

The whole USA Team should have simply abandoned the basketball court after the game was originally over.

Maior roubo da história

And than vladimir tkachenko came to put fear into his opponents hearts

They still have refused the silver medals - and the players have told their families never to accept them

The Americans should have been given three chances as well.

Well, at least it wasn't the *greatest* tragedy of The Munich Olympics.

I saw that game in 1972 and I'm still pissed off.

Soviets deserved them 3 seconds to be fair. They were destinied to win this tournament. With all respect to USA, you guys are clearly best our there for life in Basketball. But in 72' Soviets were destinied to win. Even with 1 point difference. By the way, Russians made a great movie about this story. Like really good. It's called "Three Seconds", you can find it in IMBD because it's translated from "движение вверх".

6:48 Canada 🇨🇦 "O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all of us command."

1:06 Lee Holdridge and his orchestra and Spanish operatic singer Placido Domingo rendered "Hymn to the Nations," with lyrics in English. It also incorporates the national anthems of Finland, Netherlands, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, and United States.

The game shouldn't have been close enough for The U.S. to lose, even though it was using college players. Bad coaching and bad, ragged playing are what lost the game.

The most important basketball game...🏀 indimenticabile.

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beautiful video footage ! Maybe anyone knows from what documentary this video was cut?

Da USA have da bubble butt folks😂😂😂😂😂

The Brazilian referres earned big money on that time , good job refs 👍👍👍

The worst olympique in history of basketball, unacceptable win 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

The horrible and exceedingly pro-Soviet decision making at the end of the 1972 Munich Olympics Gold Medal basketball game between the USA and the Soviet Union was a perfect example of the old expression, "highway robbery"! Under the international rules governing amateur basketball back then, a coach of a team had to press a button which would light up at the scorer's table to request a timeout! The Soviet coach failed to press that button - so no timeout should have been awarded by the game officials, and even when they awarded the Soviet Union a timeout, no more than 1 second should have been put back on the clock not 3 seconds! The USA team was absolutely right - not only in their contention that they got royally screwed at the end of that game, but also in refusing to accept their silver medals!

He says his father won the running high jump. That's interesting because there is video footage on youtube of the standing high jump being performed in 1896, but wikipedia says the standing high jump started in 1900. Hmm.

Wow, another great, historical video Michael, thanks for posting.

What a great interview, thanks for posting.

A URSS sempre vivera! Sempre te amarei URSS!

United States and former country Soviet Union are both largest countries

To this day, the silver medals sit in a Swiss vault, unclaimed. Many players even have it in their wills that their families are forbidden to claim them. Damn right. They were screwed FIVE TIMES. And WTF is a Brit doing in charge of an American sport? AND WTF do Hungary, Poland and Cuba know about basketball?!

The Soviets were all like 30+ year old & Americans college kids. It's like grown men beating kids, and having to cheat to do so, smh.

1:27 not only a flagrant 1 foul, but also basket interference. The bucket should've counted, plus the And1... End of argument. The refs cheated history of the real ending. The U.S. was right to flip them the bird @ the ceremony.

When was this documentary original broadcast, 1992?.

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Geez... if William Jones, the Secretary General of FIBA, didn’t act up in a violation of the FIBA rules, this controversy probably wouldn’t have happened. The US should’ve won but they were cheated, clear as day. It hurts my heart as an American.

When was the interview with the American player filmed?

Wait they had 3 seconds the first time they tried and missed. Then got another 3 seconds? So they didn't even take a second to do the drive before the one they scored and won on? Could have been 1 second at best left. Not 3.

WOW THIS video is manipulated , at 3:45 , the horn sounds just after the ball touches the circle of the basket , actually in the real video sounds the horn sounds just 1 second after the ball is alive

USA won and the Olympics owes them GOLD medals 🏅 There are NO do overs. The game was over after the free throws. #USAwascheatedtwice

Celebrate gone wrong!.. USA #13 poor defense