What happened at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany

Attack on the Olympic Stadium.

The Munich Olympics were held in 1972.

The XX Summer Olympic Games were held in Munich, Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. During the Olympic Games, 11 members of the Israeli Olympic delegation were killed by Palestinians, known as "Munich", which became the greatest tragedy in the history of the modern Olympic movement.

Participating countries and regions: 121

Athletes: 7,170

Host country: Federal Republic of Germany.

Main stadium: Munich Olympic Stadium.

Opening: August 26, 1972.

Closing: September 6, 1972.

Major Items: 23 Small Items: 195

At the 20th Olympic Games held in Munich, Germany in September 1972, when the Games went smoothly for 2 3 years, Abu Nidal's "Black September", the predecessor of the "Terror Company", created a tragedy rarely seen in the history of the Olympic Games.

At 5 a.m. on September 5, at 4 GMT, when the athletes were getting ready to get up for the 10th day of the Games, a commando team of about 10 members of the Palestinian "Black September" quietly arrived at the Olympic Village. These people were dressed in black, their hands and faces were blackened, and they climbed over the wall to enter the village under the cover of hazy sky. At that time, the guards had seen someone entering, but thought he was one of the athletes who had gone out late at night and had quietly returned to his residence without a pass.

Stormed the premises of the Israeli delegation in the thirty-first sector. Nine Israeli athletes were taken hostage.

By 9 a.m., the entire Olympic village was surrounded by 12,000 police officers and 24 snipers, who demanded the release of 200 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and their safe exit from West Germany at noon. After nearly a full day of negotiations, the West German side agreed to send planes to transport **** and hostages to Cairo, and send 3 *** planes to send them from the Olympic Village to the Brooke military airfield in Fishenfeld. At this time, the West German side, fearing that the lives of the Israeli hostages would be in danger when they arrived in Cairo, decided to launch an attack at the airport to rescue the hostages.

At the airport, the Israeli hostages had agreed to fly to Cairo with their captors. Germany** was not sure that the operation would succeed. The pilot of the helicopter was forced to stand in front, and then the leader of **** checked the passenger plane they were going to fly on to Cairo.

This makes it difficult to shoot. At the same time, the lights create many shadows, making it difficult to distinguish between hostages and commandos. However, the Germans still **.

As soon as it came up, it missed the target, so it lost the power of the surprise attack. As soon as the shots rang out, the **** immediately shot at the hostages as they threatened. The strafing of the Federal German Guard has not stopped, and nine Israeli athletes have already collapsed on the airport.

A kidnapper pulled a grenade in the helicopter, and the helicopter burst into flames. Other ****s shoot at the fire truck. Prevent fire trucks from approaching helicopters to fight fires and rescue hostages.

In the shootout, a total of 9 Israeli athletes, 2 policemen and 5 **** died. 4 ******.

In September 1972, during the 20th Munich Olympic Games, on the morning of the 5th, eight black September armed **** broke into the residence of Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympic Village, killed Israeli weightlifting coach and athlete Joseph Roman on the spot, and nine athletes and two coaches were held hostage. As a result, the Olympics were suspended. Since then, Black September has issued an offending statement calling for the release of 234 Palestinian political prisoners held by Israel.

Israel** rejected the demand for the release of political prisoners, but agreed to consider Egypt's proposal to transfer the hostages to Cairo, Egypt, for further negotiations. At the same time, the IOC also authorized Ahmed Tuni, the Egyptian member of the IOC, to negotiate with ****: on the condition of releasing the hostages, guarantee the safe departure of ****, and pay them a huge amount of money.

But it was refused.

At about 10 o'clock that night, West Germany agreed to the evacuation request of "Black September", transported **** and hostages to Fürstenfeldbruck air base with two ***, and then transferred to leave the country. **Originally planned to take the opportunity of changing planes to rescue the hostages, but due to the unsuccessful sniper operation, which caused a shootout confrontation, **** blew up a *** with a grenade, resulting in the death of all 9 hostages. West Germany also lost 1 policeman and 1 pilot in this rescue.

Five of the eight ****s were eliminated and the remaining three were arrested when they escaped, but were rescued after a hijacking in 1977.

On 6 September, a memorial service was held for the Israeli delegation, and the Games, which had been interrupted for 34 hours, were finally resumed.

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados.

Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil.

British Honduras, Bulgaria, Myanmar, Khmer Republic, Cameroon, Canada, Ceylon, Chad, Chile.

China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica.

Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey.

Denmark, Dominican Republic, GDR, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji.

Finland, France, Gabon, Ghana.

Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana.

Haiti, Hong Kong, Hungary, United Kingdom.

Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran.

Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica.

Japan, Kenya, South Korea, North Korea, Kuwait.

Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Lebanon.

Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Malta, Mexico.

Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal.

Netherlands, Netherlands, Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua.

Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan.

Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines.

Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania.

San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore.

Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Suriname.

Eswatini, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria.

Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago.

Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United States.

Uruguay, Soviet Union, Venezuela, South Vietnam.

U.S. Virgin Islands, Federal Republic of Germany, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Upper Volta.

A total of 121 countries and regions participated in the competition.

The 20th Summer Olympic Games, the 1972 Munich Olympics, were the largest to date. Athletes from 121 countries competed, all with record-breaking figures. The first Olympic mascot to appear at this Olympics is a German hound named Vardy.

In the early morning of September 5, due to the attack on the Olympic Village by Palestinian ****, the Olympic Games were called off, and a memorial service was held in the main stadium. After a 34-hour pause, the event resumed. A total of 600 medals were won from 121 countries and regions participating in the conference.

National Gold Medal Silver Medal Bronze Medal Total.

USSR 50 27 22 99

United States 33 31 30 94

GDR 20 23 22 65

Federal Republic of Germany 13 11 16 40

Japan 13 8 8 29

Australia 8 7 2 17

Poland 7 5 9 21

Hungary 6 13 16 35

Sweden 4 6 6 16

UK 4 5 9 18

Romania 3 6 7 16

Finland 3 1 1 5

Cuba 3 1 4 8

Netherlands 3 3 1 7

France 2 4 7 13

Czechoslovakia 2 4 2 8

Kenya 2 3 4 9

Yugoslavia 2 1 2 5

Norway 2 1 1 4

North Korea 1 1 3 5

New Zealand 1 1 1 3

Uganda 1 1 0 2

Denmark 1 0 0 1

Hart and Robertson, two of the United States' 100m record holders of 9.9 seconds, were expected to win the Games, and after the 100m heats, they returned to the Olympic Village with teammate Taylor to rest. At around 4 p.m., they were still watching TV in the lounge, when suddenly the 100-meter race was shown on the screen, and at first they thought it was a replay of the morning race, and when they figured out that it was the start of the afternoon rematch, the three of them went straight to the competition field. However, it was too late, Hart and Robertson had already missed the game, and only Taylor made it to the group rematch.

The gold medal was taken away by the Soviet Union's Bortsov with a time of 10.14 seconds, and Taylor won the silver medal.