10 SEPT 1972: The Soviet team celebrates after winning the gold medal basketball game against the US team ... The United States brought a 63-game Olympic winning streak into the final against the ...

Since basketball was introduced in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the USA’s first-ever loss was in the 1972 Germany Olympics ... to Soviet Union 51-50 in the final.Their second loss came at the ...

1976, Montreal: U.S. (95–74 win over Yugoslavia); Soviet Union bronze 1972 ... in final); France bronze American basketball stars Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi won their fifth straight Olympic ...

With the 2024 Summer Olympics beginning Friday, we look back at one of the most controversial moments in sports history: the 1972 basketball game between the United States and Russia.