Basketball
- Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group C)
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- Defeated Sweden (92-77)
- Lost to Australia (77-84)
- Defeated Cuba (79-72)
- Semi Final Round (Group A)
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- Lost to Yugoslavia (81-102)
- Defeated Soviet Union (87-85)
- Lost to Brazil (77-90)
- Defeated Spain (95-89)
- Final
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- Lost to Yugoslavia (77-86) → Silver Medal
- Team Roster:
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- Romeo Sacchetti
- Roberto Brunamonti
- Michael Silvester
- Enrico Gilardi
- Fabrizio Della Fiori
- Marco Solfrini
- Marco Bonamico
- Dino Meneghin
- Renato Villalta
- Renzo Vecchiato
- Pierluigi Marzorati
- Pietro Generali
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)