Published 6/24/2008
at NYT > Pro Basketball
By the United States basketball team’s lofty standards — standards re-established by the Dream Team of 1992 — anything short of Olympic gold is seen as a failure. So when Team USA returned from Athens in 2004 with the bronze medal, having won three straight gold medals before that, the program was revamped. >
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