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Article: Scrappy bunch of Yugoslavians make Dream Team work for its gold medal.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 4, 1996
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ATLANTA _ When the Olympics began, there were three things you could count on. Ticket scalpers would not lose money, Michael Johnson would run very fast and the Dream Team would win a gold medal.
Well, here we are at the end of the Games and ticket scalpers have wallets thick as the Atlanta phone book, Michael Johnson ran very, very fast and the Dream Team did what it set out to do.
However ...
A scrappy bunch of Yugoslavians that included NBA players Vlade Divac and Predrag Danilovic made the Dream Team work for its gold medal.
Challenged in the second half for the first time in eight Olympic games _ they led by only a point with 14 minutes to ...