OLYMPIC HISTORY
of
Basketball Game
The appearance of olympic basketball
game at the Olympic Games in 1904
in St. Louis as a demonstration sport, competition between the only American
teams took place and 72 olympics basketball was
considered the event of the Amateur Athletic Union United States) championships.
In the Games in 1936 in Berlin, Basketball located joined
the Olympic program, where it remained until today. Women's Basketball debuted
at the 1976 Games in Montreal.
The United States dominated international basketball and fun facts about sports and won all titles until 1972,
the year when it was beaten by the Soviet Union at the Munich Games. In the
case of women the olympic basketball game Soviets took in 1976, 1980 and 1992 and gold
were then dominated by the Americans 1984-2008 except 1992.
In 1992 the Barcelona Games, the known player in the United
States of the National Basketball Association were represented for the first
time (NBA). This team, known as "Dream Team" in the international
media, the best basketball team has ever been formed certainly at basketball olympic games. He delighted the public and
dominated the Olympic tournament in 1992 largely.
Life of Women in Basketball
The first women's tournament was 1976. The Soviet Union won
against five other teams. The next two tournaments followed the round robin of
six men, with the Soviets in 1980 defending their title and the 1984 USA won
against the South Koreans under the Soviet boycott. In 1988, the tournament
expanded to eight teams, with the Americans beat Yugoslavia in the basketball medal of gold medal game.
In 1992, after
the demise of the USSR, the unified team won against China in the gold medal basketball game. 1996 started the
tournament in its current 12-team format; The United States have won all the
tournaments since winning 40 consecutive games.
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• 1924: At the 23rd Session of the IOC, which took
place in Paris in June and July, the IOC set up a list of sports to choose
from. Basketball was one of them.
• 1930: The Olympic Congress in Berlin, it was decided to
award "sports games" (football, tennis, polo and hockey) basketball,
among which the organizing committee could decide.
• 1935: At the meeting of the IOC Executive Council, which
took place in Oslo in February, were the various federations (including the
Basketball Association) for the XI Games. Approved 1936 Olympic Games in
Berlin Programs
• 1949: At the 44th IOC Session held in Rome in April, it
was proposed to introduce all basketball rules of basketball
to the list of compulsory sports. This proposal was rejected. Women's
basketball rejected
• 1955: An application for registration of women's
basketball was at the 51st Session of the IOC, which took place in Paris in
June, rejected.
• 1965: The application for registration of women's
basketball was rejected at the 64th session of the IOC in October in Madrid.
Women who enter
• 1972: The proposal of the Program Commission to include
women's basketball in the game program, was at the 73rd Session of the IOC,
which took place in Munich in August and September, approved.
Evolution of the number of Teams in Olympic Basketball:
• 1936: 21 teams (men)
• 1948: 23 teams (men)
• 1952: 16 teams (men)
• 1956: 15 teams (men)
• 1960-1972: 16 teams (men)
• 1976-1984: 18 teams (12 men and 6 women)
• 1988-1992: 20 teams (12 men and 8 women)
• 1996-2016: 24 teams (12 men and 12 women)
