what are you guys talking about? Never picked up their silvers?
They are talking about the year that a communist-Brit jumped out of the stands at the Olympics and kept giving the Communist-Soviet team chances to try to score over and over again until they were able to score and ‘defeat’ the USA in basketball for the first time in history. The communist-Brit was a an Olympic official but was not authorized to jump out of the stands and control the outcome of the game.
Oops! And the USA team did not attend the medal ceremony. They all refused to accept the silver medal. The silver medals still sit in a safe in Germany. Once a year German officials contact the USA players to give to them the medals and they still refuse to accept the silver medals.