1992 Pre-Olympic Basketball Tournament games played at the Pabellón de La Granadilla, Badajoz. All games played at the Pabellón Príncipe Felipe, Zaragoza. 1992 Pre-Olympic Basketball Tournament The 1992 European Olympic Basketball Tournament was the final qualifying tournament for basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. It was held in five other Spanish cities, Bilbao, Granada, Murcia, Badajoz and Zaragoza, from June 22 till July 5. 25 FIBA Europe teams were divided into four groups. The best four from final round qualified directly for the Olympic Games. All games played at the Pabellón Municipal de Deportes La Casilla, Bilbao. All games played at
Summer Olympic Games the time. Numbers declined for the 1904 Games in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, due in part to the lengthy transatlantic boat trip required of the European competitors, and the integration with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair, which again spread the event out over an extended period. In contrast with Paris 1900, the word "Olympic" was used for practically every contest, including those exclusively for school boys or for Irish-Americans. A series of smaller games were held in Athens in 1906. The IOC does not currently recognise these games as being official Olympic Games, although many historians do. The