Basketball
- Men's competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A):
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- Lost to Cuba (89-111)
- Lost to Soviet Union (77-93)
- Defeated Mexico (120-117)
- Lost to Canada (69-81)
- Defeated Japan (117-79)
- Classification Matches:
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- 5th/8th place: Lost to Italy (72-79)
- 7th/8th place: Lost to Cuba (81-92) → 8th place
- Team Roster:
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- Robbie Cadee
- Ian Watson
- Andrew Campbell
- Tony Barnett
- Eddie Palubinskas
- Perry Crosswhite
- Russell Simon
- Michael Tucker
- Andris Blicavs
- Peter Walsh
- John Maddock
- Ray Tomlinson
- Head Coach: Lindsay Gaze
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)