The New York Times – Music:
With tensions running high over the war in Gaza, a new opera and a movie are looking back on the moment when Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Games.
Category: Olympic Games (1972)
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Buddy Melges, American Sailing Champion, Dies at 93
The New York Times – Sports:
A product of a Wisconsin lake region, he was the first sailor to win both Olympic gold and sailing’s top prize, the America’s Cup. And his colleagues revered him.
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Tokyo Olympics Scandal Fouls Hopes for a Sapporo Winter Games
The New York Times – Sports:
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’
The New York Times – Sports:
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’
The New York Times – Sports:
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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U.S. Men’s Basketball on 1972 Munich Olympics: ‘We Deserve Gold Medals’
The New York Times – Sports:
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 New York Times – Sports:
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.
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Families of Israelis Killed at Munich Olympics Plan Anniversary Boycott
The New York Times – Sports:
The families of the athletes killed by the Black September terrorist group say that the compensation they have been offered is inadequate and will stay away from a ceremony in Munich in September.