For 36 years after basketball entered the Olympic Games as a full medal sport for men, The United States remained undefeated. Basketball s most famous final was at Munich in 1972, when the USSR inflicted the first Olympic defeat on an American team in a controversial win made in the last seconds of the game. The dispute centred on whether one or three seconds of play remained after a stoppage. The US players refused their silver medals in protest against the decision. They did, however, regain their composure and go on to win all but one of the Olympics tournaments in which they ve played since.
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