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.
Wow, that’s awesome the Americans shunned their silvers.