Members of the '72 U.S. Olympic basketball team believe the silver medals they refused after a controversial game belong in the Basketball Hall of Fame, but they have to accept the medals first. That could be interpreted as agreeing w/the game's outcome.
U.S. player James Brewer is checked after a hard fall during the team's men's basketball final against the Soviet Union at the Olympics in Munich, Sept. 10, 1972.
It's not that the IOC disagrees with the Hall of Fame option. The Olympic governing body would let members of the team do what they want with the medals — once they've followed the organization's procedure for obtaining them. The game was restarted — twice — during what even the players struggle to define as errors by the officials or an outright attempt to cheat them.
“The IOC expressed its appreciation for his efforts but felt that appointing an attorney to accept the medals would not be appropriate,” an IOC spokesman said Thursday in an email to The Associated Press.
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