Did a Russian woman basketball player really throw the referee in the basketball hoops?

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Claim

In this match between the women’s basketball teams of Russia and  France, the referee’s wrong penalty angered the high center forward of the Russian women team. In a fit of anger, she lifted the referee to let him sit in the basket, pointed at the referee sitting in the basket and said, I let you sit in the basket and brag!  This is one of the few wonderful shots on the basketball court 😆👆👆#sports #referee

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Explanation

A video clip purportedly showing women’s basketball match where one of the players lifted the referee and threw him in the basketball hoops is widely circulated on social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook with the claim that the match was between Russia and France, and when the referee’s wrong penalty angered the Russian team, one of the players from the team lifted the referee and threw him in the basket. The posts mention this clip as one of the few wonderful shots in the basketball court. A few of the posts with such a claim can be seen here, here, here, and here.

What is the truth?

When searching with the keywords ‘basketball referee thrown in the basket’ a Youtube shorts video uploaded by a page named ‘Crazy Funny Time2’ on 5, October 2022 is found with matching visuals front the viral video. But no other mentions of the video is found in the description for title.

We found a conversation regarding the female basketball throwing the referee in the rim on Reddit page around four months back mentioning it as a movie. One of the users commented the movie name as “Eighth Wonder of the World”, “Восьмое чудо света”, 1981.

When searching with the movie name mentioned in the comments section of the Reddit post, several images and videos were listed confirming that the viral video is a part clipped from the movie. The people in the images listed are found matching with the ones in the viral video.

A Youtube channel is found carrying the full movie with title in Russian language. At 33:40 minutes timestamp of the video, the person in the role of female basketball player can be seen throwing the referee in the basketball hoops. It is also found that the viral video is not an exact part clipped from the full movie but has removed a few of the seconds in between that shows the audience.

When searching about the Russian movie ‘Восьмое чудо света’, the other name of the movie is mentioned as ‘Vosmoe chudo sveta’ and the release date is displayed as 1, February 1982 in Soviet Union in IMBD website. This movie is listed under comedy and sports genre.

Conclusion

It is found that the video clip where a female basketball player throws the referee in the basketball hoops is from a Russian movie and is shared as real incident.

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