Going Vertical, also known as Three Seconds, is a 2017 Russian sports drama film directed by Anton Megerdichev about the victory of the Soviet national basketball team over the 1972 U.S. Olympic team, ending their 63-game winning streak, at the Munich Summer Olympic's men's basketball tournament.
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1972 Olympic men's basketball final
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final was the last game of that year’s Olympic basketball tournament, and became one of the most controversial events in Olympic history. With the ending mired in controversy, the Soviet Union defeated Team USA by one point, marking the latter's first ever loss in the event. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union won their first eight games of the tournament, with the US team having its overall Olympic record at 63–0 when they advanced to the final against the USSR. The final three seconds of the game were replayed three times. The United States team had won the previous seven gold medals at the Olympics, and was among the contenders to win another in Munich at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Inside view (in 2014) of the Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle, where the 1972 Olympic men's basketball final was played
Sergei Belov in 2012, one year before his death