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SPORT
March 25, 2000
 From left: Meneghin (Italy), Zizic and Kicanovic (Yugoslavia) |
Yugoslav basketball team won a total of six medals at Olympic Games - one gold and bronze and four silver.
The first and the only Olympic gold Yugoslav basketball got at Moscow Olympics 1980.
As a world champion from Manila 1978 and in the absence of U.S. athletes who boycotted the Games, Yugoslavia is considered to have been the main favorite for winning gold.
After the comfortable wins in the preliminary round Yugoslavia beat Soviet Union in the semi-finals and Italy in the final match. A few seconds before the end, Italian pivot Dino Meneghin brutally fouled Dragan Kicanovic. Due to injury Yugoslavia's guard couldn't play for a few months.
Winning Olympic gold medal, Yugoslavia confirmed its superiority in the world basketball of late seventies and early eighties.
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