In 1972, American basketball players did something that had never happened at an Olympics before or since — they refused to accept their silver medals, so certain they'd been robbed of gold that some of those medals are reportedly still sitting, unclaimed, in a vault in Switzerland decades later

In 1972, American basketball players did something that had never happened at an Olympics before or since — they refused to accept their silver medals, so certain they'd been robbed of gold that some of those medals are reportedly still sitting, unclaimed, in a vault in Switzerland decades later

Doug Collins was still seeing spots when he stepped to the free throw line. A Soviet defender had just run him into the basket support hard enough that his own bench wondered whether he would get back up. He did. He sank both shots, put the United States ahead 50-49 with three seconds left in the Munich gold medal game, and for a few chaotic minutes the Americans were Olympic champions for the eighth time running. Then the officials put time bac…