basketball became a sport in the olympics in 1904.
basketball became a sport in the olympics in 1904.
when did basketball become a sport in the olympics?
1904
basketball is a sport contested at the summer olympic games. a men's basketball tournament was first held at the 1904 olympics as a demonstration; it has been held at every summer olympics since 1936. in the 1972 olympics, the final game between the united states and the soviet union was a controversial one, as the game was ended and replayed twice by a fiba (international basketball federation) official without the authority to do so, before the soviet union won their first gold medal, which would have been won by the united states if the game was not started against the rules. the u.s. filed a formal protest but was rejected by fiba. as a result, the united states refused to accept the silver medal, and no player has ever claimed his medal. after a protest of the soviet invasion of afghanistan, the united states boycotted the 1980 moscow olympics. the soviet union boycotted the 1984 summer olympics boycott in response. both boycotts affected basketball at the olympics, as both had successful basketball teams at the time. the advent of the state-sponsored "full-time amateur athlete" of the eastern bloc countries further eroded the ideology of the pure amateur, as it put the self-financed amateurs of the western countries at a disadvantage. the soviet union entered teams of athletes who were all nominally students, soldiers, or working in a profession, but many of whom were in reality paid by the state to train on a full-time basis. in april 1989, through the leadership of secretary general borislav stanković, fiba approved the rule that allowed nba players to compete in international tournaments, including the olympics. in the next olympics, the 1992 summer olympics, the "dream team" won the gold medal at the 1992 olympics basketball, with an average winning margin of 44 points per game, and without calling a time out. by this time, the soviet union and yugoslavia no longer existed, but their successor states continued to be among the leading forces. two newly independent countries of the former yugoslavia and soviet union, croatia and lithuania, won the silver and bronze medals respectively.
list of olympic medalists in basketball
cowsert was elected to the georgia state senate in 2006, and took office in 2007 representing the 46th district. his senate peers elected him majority leader in 2014. cowsert's senatorial district extends into clarke, oconee, and walton counties. he serves on the senate appropriations, finance, health and human services, judiciary, reapportionment and redistricting, regulated industries and utilities, and rules committees.









































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