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00823_Field_st27.txt.txt
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Basketball was invented at a
YMCA school in Massachusetts in
1891 and became an Olympic sport
in 1936. For the first seven
Olympics it was played, the
Americans dominated this sport,
which they had invented, and lost
for the first time in 1972, to the
Soviets, in perhaps the most
controversial basketball game ever
played. The U.S. protested an
extra 3 seconds added to the
clock which allowed the Soviets to
score a final basket and win the
game, and the Gold, by 1 point.
The U.S. team refused to accept
their Silver Medal at the Awards
ceremony, and to this day, none of
the players on that team have
accepted their second place medals.
A much happier result took place in
Barcelona in 1992, where for the
first time, Olympic basketball was
open to professional players. This
gave the U.S. the opportunity to
assemble its finest NBA players,
including Magic Johnson, Larry
Bird, Patrick Ewing, Charles
Barkley and Michael Jordan, who
put on a show for their millions of
fans, and showed the world just
how good the "Dream Team" was.
The U.S. easily won the Gold,
firmly reestablishing their
preeminence in the sport they had
invented one hundred years
before.