Celtic become the first British team to win the European Cup, beating Inter Milan. In the summer, English cyclist Tommy Simpson collapses on Mount Ventoux during the Tour de France. It emerges that even during this period substance abuse was rife in the peleton. For 23 years, the record remains unbroken. The USSR, trailing by a point, has the ball with three seconds left when Ivan Edeshko fires a courtlength pass to Alexander Belov.
Controversy still rages.
The US refused to accept their silver medals and bitterness lingers. Belov is found dead six years later, allegedly due to his involvement in a smuggling racket. Muhammad Ali, not for the first time, confounds popular wisdom and overcomes the fearsome and hitherto unbeaten George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. The heavyweight crown is his again.