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IOC kills plan to send 1972 Olympic basketball silver medals to Naismith Hall of Fame - Chicago Sun-Times
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OTD in 1972 the #Soviet #basketball🏀 team defeated the supposedly unbeatable Americans 51:50 in the finals of the #Munich Summer #Olympics🥇. In one of the most dramatic moments in sports history the
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