Those '72 olympics were memorable for a number of reasons, most notably, the murder of the eleven Israeli athletes.

But 1972 was the year that the Soviets won the controversial basketball gold medal after some shockingly dreadful officiating. The American silver medals still sit in a vault in Switzerland as no player will accept them (in fact, most players have wills that prohibit any just descendant from receiving them.

Olga Korbut's dazzling displays in gymnastics and Dave Wottle's 800 meter victory with the golf cap also come to mind, but the biggest figure of the game was Mark Spitz, who won 7 swimming gold medals.