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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: April 19, 2015
Caption: Olympic Basketball & The Grateful Dead
Additional Description: In 1991 Lithuanians found their new freedom everywhere, it seemed. One very meaningful moment came when Lithuanian athletes competed in the 1992 Olympics under their own flag, not the Soviet Union's. Basketball fans still remember how, when Lithuanian players couldn't afford the travel, members of the Grateful Dead paid their way to Barcelona where they defeated the ex-USSR team to win the Bronze Medal. Players wore tie-dyed t-shirts combining the band's imagery with Lithuania's national colors.
Submitted: April 28, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p306579
File Size: 0.755 Megabytes

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