1972 Olympic Sports Scandal

1972 Olympic Sports Scandal

Hayden Beattie

Ferris, sports lit

Scandals



The 1972 Olympic men's basketball event was one of the most controversial events in Olympic history and was the first ever loss for Team USA since the sport was introduced into the Olympic in 1936. The US team won seven gold medals and was favored to win in the 1972 Summer Olympics. The team convincingly won its first eight games of the tournament putting its overall Olympic record at 63–0 and establishing a final against the Soviets. The first Olympic basketball tournament was organized at the 1936 Olympics. According to the Olympic rules of that time, all of the competitors were tyros. The tournament was held indoors for the first time in 1948. The American team proved its ascendance, winning the first seven Olympic tournaments until 1968, without losing a single game. While the Americans were barred from sending a team that contained players from the professional National Basketball Sodality, they instead sent in college players; teams from some other countries ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...A protest began from the outrage of this scandal and many people join to stop what was happening. Righetto refused to sign the official scoring sheet in an act of protest, though Gabdlnur Mukhamedzyanov, a Soviet referee present as spectator, claimed to have witnessed Righetto's signature. Herbert Mols, serving as the resident manager of the U.S. team, and U.S. Olympic Basketball Committee chairman MK Summers, filed a detailed protest, which was heard by FIBA's five–member jury of appeal. After the conclusion of the games, the United States Olympic Committee launched another appeal, this time to the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The protest asserted that allowing a third inbounds play with the clock reset to

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