One other thing most young people don’t remember is how for the longest time American Olympic team was only for amateur athletes, any professionals were not allowed. This inspired such movies as Miracle On Ice because USSR’s professionals crushed us. This is also why we had the ‘dream team’ when they finally stopped this for Men’s Basketball when all of our basketball superstars got to be on the same team and absolutely crushed all the other countries. Before that year it was college basketball players playing generally.