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50 stunning Olympic moments No 26: The terrorist outrage in Munich in 1972 | Simon Burnton

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Wednesday, 2 May 2012 (on May 2, 2012)
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The Munich Olympics were supposed to wipe out memories of Berlin in 1936. Instead they turned to horror for the Israeli team

The 1972 Olympics were always going to be rich in symbolism, as the hosts..


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