Saturday marks exactly 50 years since the Olympic basketball debacle in Munich, a gold-medal game in which the United States appeared to have beaten the Soviet Union – and maintained what was to that ...

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Rio, 2016: Team USA continued its run of dominance in Rio, winning its third consecutive gold medal. After going undefeated in the group stage, the U.S. began the knockout stage with a sweet 105-78 ...

Basketball debuted as a medal sport for men at the 1936 Olympics, and women's basketball was later added in 1976. During that time, one nation has dominated the sport, but many different players have ...

After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, President Jimmy Carter threatened a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics. Carter hoped the threat would force Soviet troops back over the ...

The Winter Olympic Games 2022 in Beijing, China, concluded Sunday after more than two weeks of competition. The men’s ice hockey team lost to Slovakia in the quarterfinal round. Finland went on to win ...