Double Gold: Looking Back at the Summer of '86

Throughout the history of the FIBA World Championship, USA men’s and women’s teams have captured ‘double gold’ in the same World Championship year only once.

In 1986 cracks were beginning to show in the Soviet Bloc’s Iron Curtain. From the Chernobyl disaster, to the Soviet War in Afghanistan, which was already over six years old and going nowhere, the USSR’s days were numbered...