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The 1972 Olympics basketball final between the Soviet Union and the United States

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MAY 2023

  • Fabien Archambault - UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON-SORBONNE

TRANSLATION : Glenn Naumovitz

TOPIC : Sport

PLACES : Europe - South America - North America

PERIODS : The Atlantic Space Within Globalization - The Consolidation of Mass Cultures

DOI : 10.35008/tracs-0172

ABSTRACT

The game marked a turning point in the sport’s history on both sides of the Atlantic. Due to linguistic misunderstandings between the American players, the Soviet coaches and the Brazilian referee, the sport spoke a little less English after 1972.

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