The commission’s creation stems in part from an agreement made last year to reassess German failures in handling the attack by Palestinian militants, which killed 11 Israeli athletes.
Tag: Olympic Games (1972)
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Tokyo Olympics Scandal Fouls Hopes for a Sapporo Winter Games
The International Olympic Committee was already struggling to find hosts for the Winter Games. Sapporo’s flailing 2030 bid has added another headache.
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How a Marathon Win 50 Years Ago Kick-Started the ‘Running Boom’
Frank Shorter couldn’t have imagined the impact his 1972 Olympic marathon victory would have on the sport. “I was just a piece in the puzzle,” he said.
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U.S. Men’s Basketball on 1972 Munich Olympics: ‘We Deserve Gold Medals’
Fifty years after a painful, and controversial, loss to the Soviet Union in the 1972 Olympics, some American men’s basketball players still hope to be declared the rightful winners.
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For Mark Spitz, Olympic Greatness Came Amid Tragedy
The former swimmer said it was “like an out-of-body experience” to win seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games and then learn that terrorists had attacked Israelis at the Olympic Village.