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The United States and Soviet Union sporting rivalry reached its peak during the Cold War. The U.S. men's team was considered a favorite in the run-up to the 1972 Games. Since the first Olympic basketball tournament at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the Americans had not lost a single game, winning seven consecutive gold medals in dominating ...
The Soviet Union controversially won the gold medal game against the United States. [1] [2] This was the first time that the USA did not win a gold medal since the sport's introduction into the Olympics at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games. The bronze was won by Cuba, the only Olympic medal they have won in basketball. [3]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between ...
Team USA 95-91 Serbia. France 73-69 Germany. Bronze medal game: Sat. Aug. 10. Germany vs. Serbia: 5:00 a.m. ET | USA Network. Olympic men's basketball: How to watch Team USA vs. France gold medal game
After dominating Serbia 110-84 on Sunday, Team USA men's basketball is turning its attention to a team it barely beat in exhibition play. The U.S. Olympic squad will take on South Sudan today in ...
Cold war tensions between the US and the USSR were the backdrop of sports competitions, especially in ice hockey, basketball, chess and the Olympic Games. [ 51 ] 1956: 1956 Summer Olympics – USSR-Hungary Blood in the Water match following the Hungarian Revolution and the Soviet invasion of Hungary
Olympics basketball games today: Women's medal events Sunday, August 11 Women's bronze medal final: Australia vs. Belgium: 5:30 a.m. ET on USA Network, Peacock and NBCOlympics.com.
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...