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At the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, the United States met the Soviet Union in the men’s basketball final. The Americans trailed the Soviets, (1) were far more experienced players, by five points at halftime and by 10 points with less than 10 minutes remaining, but mounted a furious rally (2) resulted in a one-point lead on a pair of free throws by Illinois State guard Doug Collins with three seconds remaining. (3) happened next was weird, to say the least.
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International rules prohibited a team from calling a timeout after a free throw, (4) is why the Soviets inbounded the ball. The Soviet coach and bench ran onto the court to demand a timeout from Bulgarian referee Artenik Arabadjan, (5) stopped the clock with one second remaining. Arabadjan denied the Soviets a timeout, but allowed them to re-inbound the ball. The Soviets, (6) ensuing pass was deflected, were disappointed when the buzzer sounded and the Americans began to celebrate.
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R. William Jones, the secretary general of the International Amateur Basketball Federation, approached the scorer’s table and ordered that the Soviets be awarded a timeout and three seconds be put back on the clock. Despite the fact that Jones didn’t have the authority to make such a demand, the referees agreed. Aleksandr Belov, (7) third inbound attempt succeeded, was able to convert the game-winning layup before the buzzer, giving the Soviets a 51-50 win.
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The Americans made a protest (8) was dismissed. They then did (9) they thought was the only thing to do: they decided to boycott the awards ceremony and refuse their silver medals. The 12 members of the U.S. team have received numerous invitations to accept their medals since then, but they have always declined, and the awards remain in a vault in Lausanne, Switzerland. U.S. team captain Kenny Davis and teammate Tom Henderson, (10) medals are among those twelve, have provisions in their wills that none of their descendants must ever accept a silver medal from the 1972 Games.
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