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The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, September 12, 1972 Olympics? fate A Sports Analysis b David Zucchino , Sports Editor "They've been trying to rook the Americans in the Olympics," muttered USA-USC basketball star Kevin Joyce, "and now they've finally done it." Joyce has complained about basketball games before. This time, though, with Joyce wearing a white uniform with a red and blue "USA" on the front instead of a red rooster, you had to agree with him. Joyce was referring, of course, to the International Basketball Federation's (FIBA) decision to award the Olympic gold medal in basketball to the USSR. The Russians highly argumentative 51-50 win over the VS. with three seconds gone in the post-game celebrations was the final, clinching outrage against a snake-bitten American squad in the ill-starred XX Olympiad. If it wasn't the worst of times, then it was hardly the best. Americans got spiked and fell down on tracks, they got balled up on starting times, they bloodied opponents but still lost bizarre decisions in boxing rings, they had medals stolen for taking medically-prescribed drugs for sinus conditions and they lost half a relay team for what the IOC called "inexcusably insolent" behavior. What really frosted the folks at home, though, was the blatantly biased basketball decision. It went something like this: The Americans had apparently won the game Saturday night after Doug Collins of Illinois State sank two pressure free throws with three seconds left, or more precisely, with what everyone in the Olympic basketball hall thought was three seconds left. Russia took the ball and passed in bounds to mid-court. The clock read one second left. However, play was suddenly halted by the officials, who said they detected a disturbance at courtside. It turned out later that the "disturbance" consisted of a Russian coach standing on the playing court. Anyway, the officials marched everybody back to the American end of the court and gave the Russians the ball with one second to play. Fair enough. The USSR tried for a full-court heave that didn't even touch the rim. Naturally enough, the youthful American players were beside themselves with ecstacy. The jubiantly pounded and hugged and kissed one another in what they assumed was America's 64th consecutive basketball victory. Wrong again. Amidst all the confusion and celebration, FIBA secretary general R. William Jones somehow got the notion that the American's victory dance had deprived the Russians of a fair chance to score. But the game films clearly showed that every single American player, minus the five starters, was on the player's bench until after time ran out. Regardless of what Jones decided, it simply wasn't his decision to make. If the referees or the official scorekeeper had felt that the Russians got a raw deal or that the clock should be readjusted, it would have been an entirely different situation. But the officials were assailed from both sides by the opposing coaches and in the pandemonium that followed they blew their cool and did nothing. Jones, however, suggested that the clock be reset at 0:03. The referees said what the hell and agreed. The Americans were dumbfounded. The Russrans then came up with the 85-foot pass play that got the final layup and the eventual 5 1 -50 victory. And when the. USSR players stomped around, rolled across the floor and generally behaved like it was 1917 all over again, not a word of protest was heard from the mouth of the FIBA. Not a damned word. The FIBA heard some protesting, though. The federation's appeal jury studied the game films for 14 hours and finally decided that everything was above board. Final score: USSR 51 (plus three seconds), USA 50. 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Research Astrologer will test people born Nov. 2-3-4 1949. Blincoe. Box 240A, Rt. 1. Mt. Airy. N.C. Jiannlts Scorekeeper Hans Tenschert of West Germany, however, didn't see it quite that way. Tenschert, who normally would have consulted with the referees for any decision concerning the official clock, said in effect that the Americans had been had. "Under the rules," he said simply, "the United States won." But the decision of the FIBA will stand. UJS. coach Hand Iba called it "robbery" and then discovered how right he was when somebody grabbed his wallet and $350 while he was signing the US. protest. And Kevin Joyce, on his way back from Munich empty-handed today the American squad voted justifiably not to accept the silver medal), couldn't help but remember another 5 1 50 basketball game just two years earlier. So it goes. Thus, the officiating and the politicing robbed some American athletes of a sizeable chunk of glory, not to mention the tarnished pride, the busted dreams and the four years of wasted devotion. Yet even sane officials and non-partisan decisions could not have made the VS. Olympic champions. Not this time. With only Monday's sparse competition remaining, the USSR had sewed up the team championship with 50 golds to America's 33 and a 99-93 lead in total medals. From the time the American track coach failed to get his sprinters to their heats on schedule, to the time Vince Matthews and Wayne Collett were barred from Olympic competition for life, the Americans were haunted by adversity, dissension and bewildering tricks of fate. Matthews and Collett, both blacks, typified the mystic aura surrounding Munich when they . talked, ' shuffled and refused to face the flag during their awards presentation. Their banishment was uncalled for. 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