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The U.S. Men’s Basketball Team: The Dream Team
The arrival of the U.S. men’s basketball team at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, proved a major milestone in two notable trends in modern sports: the demise of the amateur athlete in Olympic competition and the remarkable rise in the popularity of basketball worldwide. The United States had always dominated Olympic competition in men’s basketball, winning every gold medal except three, and so the bronze medal performance at the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea, caused frustration among American fans. Eager to reassert their claim to dominance of a sport that was invented in their country, U.S. basketball ...(100 of 342 words)