(07-25-2014 02:57 PM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(07-20-2014 10:16 PM)TPBlaze84 Wrote:  Don't belivee someone has said this yet, but the US Men's Olympic Basketball team. Some of the teams (1992, 1996, 2008) represented some of the most talented sports teams ever assembled.

...but..They played against amateurs. If I was going to pick an Olympic sports team...It would have to the the US Hockey team that won gold. No one saw that coming. These were amateurs that beat professionals.

Remember, the US did it not once but twice in ice hockey.

1960 in Squaw Valley, then 1980. One was about as miraculous as the other.

And as for upsets, remember that the US will enter the 2016 games as the two-time defending goal medalist in.... rugby. 1920 and 1924, last times rugby was in the Olympics before this year. 1924 were the "Chariots of Fire" games in Paris. What's not mentioned in the movie, except for one line in one scene, is that Eric Liddell was probably the finest rugby player of the day, "Scotland's greatest wing," as he is referred to by a kid seeking an autograph in the movie. He elected not to play rugby because the schedule would not have allowed him to avoid playing on Sunday, whereas he thought he could avoid Sunday in track (and we know how that worked out from the movie). When he declined to play, Scotland elected not to field a team. US beat Romania and France to win the gold.