Basketball At The 1972 Summer Olympics
Basketball contests at the 1972 Summer Olympics took place at Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle in Munich, Germany from August 27 to September 9. This edition of the tournament marked the first time the United States did not win a gold medal since the sport's inception into the Olympic Games in 1936, and ended up with the silver instead in a controversial final match against the Soviet Union. The bronze went to Cuba, the first and only Olympic medal up to the present day for that nation's basketball team.
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