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You already know that the best betting software loves to explore the weird world of sports, and today we will talk about a somber happening, one of the saddest moments in the history of the sport, in fact.
The 1972 Munich Olympics went down in history for the terrorist attack that took the lives of 11 Israeli athletes. The disaster happened on Tuesday, September 5, 1972, the 11th day of the event, with less than a week to go before it was all over, the following Sunday.
Three decades after the Holocaust, the Israeli team was going to the Olympics in Germany to show that the past was behind them. In a sad irony, several of their athletes ended up dying in this very country, "at the hands" of Palestinian terrorists - and partly due to the incompetence of the German police. Understand how this disaster happened.
The Games of Joy
The Olympics are a celebration of unity among peoples and of athletes overcoming limits with healthy competition within the sporting arenas. It was in this atmosphere that Germany prepared the 1972 Munich Games, whose slogan was "The Games of Joy. The idea, moreover, was to show an optimistic and modern country, after the 1936 Olympics were co-opted by Hitler as propaganda for the Nazi Party.
Exactly 7134 athletes from 121 countries went to Munich. Chiaki Ishii won our first medal in judo, and Nelson Prudencio won another in the triple jump, both bronze.
With modern sports arenas, hostesses dressed as traditional Bavarian women, and even the first mascot of the Olympics, the little dog Waldi, everything seemed to be going according to plan. American swimmer Mark Spitz surprised the world by winning 7 gold medals (a record that would only be surpassed by Michael Phelps in 2008) and Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut impressed with her amazing moves.
However, the memory of Munich in 1972 would change forever after September 5.
The surprise at dawn
In his testimony about the coverage of the Olympic Games to Memória Globo project, the narrator Luciano do Valle tells that the Olympic Village was very open at the time: the guards did not ask for much information, so the journalists could enter there and talk quietly with the athletes. He tells that this was what he did in the early morning of September 5.
Around the same time, at 4:30 a.m., the Israeli athletes were sleeping in their apartments after a pleasant evening of watching a play, when eight Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group broke into the Olympic Village - jumping over the flimsy wire fence protecting the venue.
The terrorists were helped by athletes from other countries, who thought they were competitors who, like them, had spent a night out and were trying to get in without being seen or beaten up. However, these men were carrying suitcases with rifles, pistols and grenades.
They went straight to Israel's accommodation at Connollystraße 31 and broke into 2 of the 3 apartments using stolen keys. In apartment 1, referee Yossef Gutfreund heard a strange noise, shouted and tried to stop the break-in. Fight coach Moshe Weinberg also tried to fight with the terrorists, but was shot in the face.
The first fatalities
Gutfreund's scream allowed one of his colleagues to escape, but he and Weinberg were held by the terrorists-they ordered the coach to go to the other Israelis. He tricked the Palestinians, saying there were no Israelis in apartment 2, by taking them to apartment 3, where the wrestling and weightlifting athletes were sleeping.
It is believed that Weinberg did this out of strategy, thinking that the stronger men would have a chance to neutralize the terrorists. He made one more attack on the invaders, but was shot and stabbed again, being killed. At the same time, weightlifter Yosseff Romano also attacked the terrorists, but was killed. Decades later, documents prove that he was castrated after his death.
The 9 remaining hostages were taken to apartment 1 and tied up. It is known that the Israelis were brutally beaten, with many broken bones and mutilations. Romano's body was left in front of his colleagues as a warning.
Still, the attempts by Weinberg and Romano served to alert their colleagues in apartment 2, who managed to escape.
The games continue
On the morning of September 5, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage ordered the Olympics to continue, even with Israel's chaotic situation. "The games must continue," he said. It is interesting to note that news was not flowing that fast at the time, and the first updates said that the terrorists had been killed, and the hostages were alive.
But with the 9 Israelis still as hostages, the terrorists made their demands: the release of 234 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, plus other international political prisoners. Black September was an armed arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in a conflict with Israel that had lasted decades at the time and remains unresolved to this day.
Prime Minister Golda Meir refused to negotiate with terrorists, fearing it would encourage further attacks. So the German police tried to deal with them at their own risk - adding a new ingredient to the disaster.
Unsuccessful negotiations
It is true that the German government tried to convince the Palestinians in whatever ways they could: they offered German hostages in exchange for the Israelis, they even said they would give all the money the terrorists wanted for the freedom of the athletes. To that offer, Black September responded that money was of no interest to them and neither were their lives.
Meanwhile, it is believed that Avery Brundage tried to get the police to get the Israelis and the terrorists out of the venue so that the games could continue. It was not until 3:50 pm that the competitions were halted, under international pressure.
During the afternoon, German police officers even thought about storming the Olympic Village to kill the terrorists. The problem was that TV cameras from all over the world were following every step of the actions and showing them live. The terrorists themselves could see everything, and the attempts had to be stopped.
Already on the evening of September 5, after more than 20 hours of failed negotiations, the Palestinians asked for a plane to fly to an Arab country that would support them. This was the final act of disaster: the attempt to corner the terrorists.
The disaster of incompetence
First, the Germans thought of killing the terrorists as they left the Olympic Village, since they would have to pass through a parking lot to get to the helicopter that would take them to the airport and from there to the plane. The leader of the Palestinians, Issa, knew it was a trap and ordered a bus to take everyone safely to the helicopter.
Upon arrival at the airport, a team of German police officers were assigned to impersonate the airport flight crew, but knowing that the terrorists were prepared - and it was therefore a suicide mission - they all defected without communicating the rest of the German team. When Issa went inside to inspect the plane and saw no one, he knew it was an ambush.
Meanwhile, German snipers stayed hidden to try to hit the terrorists. But there were no experienced snipers, especially in a dark field - it was after 10 o'clock at night. The German police got off a few shots, but that was too late: the terrorists threw a grenade at the helicopters where the Israeli hostages were tied up. Other athletes died from gunfire, as did a German policeman.
In the first interviews, the German police said that the ambush was a success. It was only in the early morning of the 6th that the truth was revealed: everyone was dead.
After the massacre
The truth is that the Munich police were absolutely unprepared to deal with terrorists like those of Black September. Only years later it was revealed that a German researcher raised the possibility of a Palestinian attack at the games, but was ignored. Part of this was due to the desire to show a new, friendly, demilitarized Germany at the Munich Olympics. In the following editions, security schemes became much more complex to avoid similar tragedies.
The 1972 Olympics were paralyzed for an additional 24 hours while a memorial ceremony for the dead athletes was hosted at the Olympic Stadium. In his speech, Avery Brundage barely mentioned the victims and only said that the "Olympic spirit" lived on despite terrorism. The Olympic and most countries' flags were raised at half-mast, but 10 Arab countries refused to do the same.
Mark Spitz, an American of Jewish origin, fled Munich, as did the Israelis who were not victims of the attack. Several athletes from other countries returned home early, arguing that they were no longer in the mood to compete. Even so, the games continued through Monday, with the closing ceremony on Sunday.
Three terrorists survived and were arrested by German police, but released about 3 months later when the Black September group hijacked a Lufthansa plane. Golda Meir and the Mossad, Israeli secret service, created Operation Wrath of God to capture the terrorists, but some of them survived into old age. A documentary and a Steven Spielberg film have been made about the tragedy - in this one, Moshe Weinberg's son plays the role of his own father. He was 1 month old at the time of the disaster.
For years, the International Olympic Committee refused to hold ceremonies in memory of the massacre, for fear of upsetting other countries. Only in Rio 2016 did something like this happen, and now at the opening of the Tokyo Games, there was a minute's silence.
We hope you liked this little sad piece of history, and if you did, stay tuned because bettingsoftware.com will be back soon with more great content for you!
The 1972 Munich Olympics went down in history for the terrorist attack that took the lives of 11 Israeli athletes. The disaster happened on Tuesday, September 5, 1972, the 11th day of the event, with less than a week to go before it was all over, the following Sunday.
Three decades after the Holocaust, the Israeli team was going to the Olympics in Germany to show that the past was behind them. In a sad irony, several of their athletes ended up dying in this very country, "at the hands" of Palestinian terrorists - and partly due to the incompetence of the German police. Understand how this disaster happened.
The Games of Joy
The Olympics are a celebration of unity among peoples and of athletes overcoming limits with healthy competition within the sporting arenas. It was in this atmosphere that Germany prepared the 1972 Munich Games, whose slogan was "The Games of Joy. The idea, moreover, was to show an optimistic and modern country, after the 1936 Olympics were co-opted by Hitler as propaganda for the Nazi Party.
Exactly 7134 athletes from 121 countries went to Munich. Chiaki Ishii won our first medal in judo, and Nelson Prudencio won another in the triple jump, both bronze.
With modern sports arenas, hostesses dressed as traditional Bavarian women, and even the first mascot of the Olympics, the little dog Waldi, everything seemed to be going according to plan. American swimmer Mark Spitz surprised the world by winning 7 gold medals (a record that would only be surpassed by Michael Phelps in 2008) and Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut impressed with her amazing moves.
However, the memory of Munich in 1972 would change forever after September 5.
The surprise at dawn
In his testimony about the coverage of the Olympic Games to Memória Globo project, the narrator Luciano do Valle tells that the Olympic Village was very open at the time: the guards did not ask for much information, so the journalists could enter there and talk quietly with the athletes. He tells that this was what he did in the early morning of September 5.
Around the same time, at 4:30 a.m., the Israeli athletes were sleeping in their apartments after a pleasant evening of watching a play, when eight Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group broke into the Olympic Village - jumping over the flimsy wire fence protecting the venue.
The terrorists were helped by athletes from other countries, who thought they were competitors who, like them, had spent a night out and were trying to get in without being seen or beaten up. However, these men were carrying suitcases with rifles, pistols and grenades.
They went straight to Israel's accommodation at Connollystraße 31 and broke into 2 of the 3 apartments using stolen keys. In apartment 1, referee Yossef Gutfreund heard a strange noise, shouted and tried to stop the break-in. Fight coach Moshe Weinberg also tried to fight with the terrorists, but was shot in the face.
The first fatalities
Gutfreund's scream allowed one of his colleagues to escape, but he and Weinberg were held by the terrorists-they ordered the coach to go to the other Israelis. He tricked the Palestinians, saying there were no Israelis in apartment 2, by taking them to apartment 3, where the wrestling and weightlifting athletes were sleeping.
It is believed that Weinberg did this out of strategy, thinking that the stronger men would have a chance to neutralize the terrorists. He made one more attack on the invaders, but was shot and stabbed again, being killed. At the same time, weightlifter Yosseff Romano also attacked the terrorists, but was killed. Decades later, documents prove that he was castrated after his death.
The 9 remaining hostages were taken to apartment 1 and tied up. It is known that the Israelis were brutally beaten, with many broken bones and mutilations. Romano's body was left in front of his colleagues as a warning.
Still, the attempts by Weinberg and Romano served to alert their colleagues in apartment 2, who managed to escape.
The games continue
On the morning of September 5, International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage ordered the Olympics to continue, even with Israel's chaotic situation. "The games must continue," he said. It is interesting to note that news was not flowing that fast at the time, and the first updates said that the terrorists had been killed, and the hostages were alive.
But with the 9 Israelis still as hostages, the terrorists made their demands: the release of 234 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, plus other international political prisoners. Black September was an armed arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization, in a conflict with Israel that had lasted decades at the time and remains unresolved to this day.
Prime Minister Golda Meir refused to negotiate with terrorists, fearing it would encourage further attacks. So the German police tried to deal with them at their own risk - adding a new ingredient to the disaster.
Unsuccessful negotiations
It is true that the German government tried to convince the Palestinians in whatever ways they could: they offered German hostages in exchange for the Israelis, they even said they would give all the money the terrorists wanted for the freedom of the athletes. To that offer, Black September responded that money was of no interest to them and neither were their lives.
Meanwhile, it is believed that Avery Brundage tried to get the police to get the Israelis and the terrorists out of the venue so that the games could continue. It was not until 3:50 pm that the competitions were halted, under international pressure.
During the afternoon, German police officers even thought about storming the Olympic Village to kill the terrorists. The problem was that TV cameras from all over the world were following every step of the actions and showing them live. The terrorists themselves could see everything, and the attempts had to be stopped.
Already on the evening of September 5, after more than 20 hours of failed negotiations, the Palestinians asked for a plane to fly to an Arab country that would support them. This was the final act of disaster: the attempt to corner the terrorists.
The disaster of incompetence
First, the Germans thought of killing the terrorists as they left the Olympic Village, since they would have to pass through a parking lot to get to the helicopter that would take them to the airport and from there to the plane. The leader of the Palestinians, Issa, knew it was a trap and ordered a bus to take everyone safely to the helicopter.
Upon arrival at the airport, a team of German police officers were assigned to impersonate the airport flight crew, but knowing that the terrorists were prepared - and it was therefore a suicide mission - they all defected without communicating the rest of the German team. When Issa went inside to inspect the plane and saw no one, he knew it was an ambush.
Meanwhile, German snipers stayed hidden to try to hit the terrorists. But there were no experienced snipers, especially in a dark field - it was after 10 o'clock at night. The German police got off a few shots, but that was too late: the terrorists threw a grenade at the helicopters where the Israeli hostages were tied up. Other athletes died from gunfire, as did a German policeman.
In the first interviews, the German police said that the ambush was a success. It was only in the early morning of the 6th that the truth was revealed: everyone was dead.
After the massacre
The truth is that the Munich police were absolutely unprepared to deal with terrorists like those of Black September. Only years later it was revealed that a German researcher raised the possibility of a Palestinian attack at the games, but was ignored. Part of this was due to the desire to show a new, friendly, demilitarized Germany at the Munich Olympics. In the following editions, security schemes became much more complex to avoid similar tragedies.
The 1972 Olympics were paralyzed for an additional 24 hours while a memorial ceremony for the dead athletes was hosted at the Olympic Stadium. In his speech, Avery Brundage barely mentioned the victims and only said that the "Olympic spirit" lived on despite terrorism. The Olympic and most countries' flags were raised at half-mast, but 10 Arab countries refused to do the same.
Mark Spitz, an American of Jewish origin, fled Munich, as did the Israelis who were not victims of the attack. Several athletes from other countries returned home early, arguing that they were no longer in the mood to compete. Even so, the games continued through Monday, with the closing ceremony on Sunday.
Three terrorists survived and were arrested by German police, but released about 3 months later when the Black September group hijacked a Lufthansa plane. Golda Meir and the Mossad, Israeli secret service, created Operation Wrath of God to capture the terrorists, but some of them survived into old age. A documentary and a Steven Spielberg film have been made about the tragedy - in this one, Moshe Weinberg's son plays the role of his own father. He was 1 month old at the time of the disaster.
For years, the International Olympic Committee refused to hold ceremonies in memory of the massacre, for fear of upsetting other countries. Only in Rio 2016 did something like this happen, and now at the opening of the Tokyo Games, there was a minute's silence.
We hope you liked this little sad piece of history, and if you did, stay tuned because bettingsoftware.com will be back soon with more great content for you!
