Two months ago i started to research about European basketball championships. My attention was focused on the socialist countries. Last time we read about the success of the women's national basketball team of Bulgaria. In this article, I would like to introduce you to the men's national team of Czechoslovakia and their performance in the Olympic games.
First of all, let’s start with the winners of the European championships over the years. Here are the top three:
Year Gold Silver Bronze
1935 Geneva (SUI) Latvia Spain Czechoslovakia
1937 Riga (LAT) Lithuania Italy France
1939 Kaunas (LTU) Lithuania Latvia Poland
1946 Geneva (SUI) Czechoslovakia Italy Hungary
1947 Prague (TCH) Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Egypt
1949 Cairo (EGY) Egypt France Greece
1951 Paris (FRA) Soviet Union Czechoslovakia France
1953 Moscow (RUS) Soviet Union Hungary France
1955 Budapest (HUN) Hungary Czechoslovakia Soviet Union
1957 Sofia (BUL) Soviet Union BulgariA Czechoslovakia
1959 Istanbul (TUR) Soviet Union Czechoslovakia France
1961 Belgrade(YUG) Soviet Union Yugoslavia Bulgaria
1963 Wroclaw(POL) Soviet Union Poland Yugoslavia
1965 Moscow(URS) Soviet Union Yugoslavia Poland
1967 Helsinki(FIN) Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Poland
1969 Naples(ITA) Soviet Union Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia
1971 Essen(GER) Soviet Union Yugoslavia Italy
1973 Badalona(ESP) Yugoslavia Spain Soviet Union
1975 Belgade(YUG) Yugoslavia Soviet Union Italy
1977 Liege(BEL) Yugoslavia Soviet Union Czechoslovakia
1979 Mestre(ITA) Soviet Union Israel Yugoslavia
1981 Bratislava(TCH) Soviet Union Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia
1983 Limoges(FRA) Italy Spain Soviet Union
1985 Karlsruhe(GER) Soviet Union Czechoslovakia Italy
1987 Athens (GRE) Greece Soviet Union Yugoslavia
1989 Zagreb (ICRO) Yugoslavia Greece Soviet Union
1991 Rome (ITA) Yugoslavia Italia Spain
1993 Berlin(GER) Germany Russia Croatia
1995 Athens (GRE) Yugoslavia Lithuania Croatia
1997 Gerona(ESP) Yugoslavia Italy Russia
1999 Antibes(FRA) Italy Spain Yugoslavia
2001 Ankara(TUR) Yugoslavia Turkey Spain
2003 Boras(SWE) Lithuania Spain Italy
2005 Vrsac(SCG) Greece Germany France
2007 Alicante(ESP) Russia Spain Lithuania
2009 Katowice (POL) Spain Serbia Greece
2011 Alytus(LTU) Spain France Russia
Like Robert Prechter says in his book „The Wave Principle of Human Social Behavior and the New Science of Socionomics"(probably most of you have read this book), -basketball is a bull market sport. Of course, he talks about basketball in the USA, but one could assume that this is valid for Europe.
As I mentioned in my article about the Bulgarian women's basketball team, an excellent performance would mean that the team must be amongst the top three teams. Over the years for Czechoslovakia this is as follows:
Plotted on the graph, the five-wave model would appear as follows:
- 1935 in Geneva, Czechoslovakia ranked 3rd place. This could be wave 1.
- In the next two championships(1937, 1939), the country is overboard and did not bring any medal home. In my opinion, this is the first correction and also wave 2.
- The second correction in the performance was between 1971 and 1975 when the country was out of the top three.This is wave 4.
- The next 5 competitions bring one silver medal and two bronze(1977 and 1985). Here we must say that the last tournament where Czechoslovakia won a medal was in Germany in 1985. And this is the last wave of 5.
Plotted on the graph, the five-wave model would appear as follows:
After the completion of 5 waves in one direction, we expect a correction of 3 waves in the opposite. The rules of the wave theory allow a different interpretation to be the mode of the waves. So you could have various labels, but in the end, five waves will be completed. This is one possible count.
During the cold war, the performance of the socialist countries in the European championships was very successful. The sport was an excellent opportunity for the East to oppose the West. This is the case of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, and Slovakia, which are now waiting for their better times in men's national basketball.
Reference: http://www.fibaeurope.com/
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