Three Seconds in Munich by David A. F. Sweet

Author:David A. F. Sweet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SPO058000 Sports & Recreation / Olympics, SPO004000 Sports & Recreation / Basketball, SPO019000 Sports & Recreation / History
Publisher: UNP - Nebraska

How was the United States team officially notified of the decision? A delivery boy showed up at Davis’s room in the Olympic Village. He handed the team captain a torn story from the Associated Press wire that said the protest had been rejected.

Quickly word spread that Poland, Hungary, and Cuba had sided with the Soviets. Puerto Rico and Italy voted to overturn the 51–50 result. The decision mirrored Cold War politics. Cries of a kangaroo court were uttered to no avail.

The press conference to explain the decision that afternoon was as crazed as the end of the game—lacking only a horn blasting at inopportune moments. Doing his best to appear unflappable in a hot, crowded room, Hepp tried to justify the panel’s decision, explaining the sequence of events. His reasoning was lambasted:

Enraged, U.S. Assistant Manager Herb Mols asked, regarding the first stoppage with one second remaining, “We are asking you, who caused the referee to stop the play, and it was the Russian bench. You looked at the movies, and this is established. Why not credit this, and how can you penalize an American team for the Russian bench coming illegally on the floor with no technical foul called, which is in the book?”

“I don’t indeed see the point of the question,” Hepp responded to uproarious laughter and a shout of “You’re kidding!”20

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