Challenging How Germany Remembers the 1972 Olympics Attack
With tensions running high over the war in Gaza, a new opera and a movie are looking back on the moment when Israeli athletes ...
Film puts us in the room as Munich’s ‘Happy Games’ turned to horror
September 5 stars Peter Sarsgaard as a veteran sports broadcaster confronting a hostage crisis at the 1972 Olympics.
Iris Cummings Critchell, 104, Dies; Olympic Swimmer Turned Aviator
The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot ...
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A Rare Gold Medal From The 1904 Olympics In St. Louis Just Sold For Over $500,000 At Auction
The 1904 Olympics were the first to take place in the United States, and they established the tradition of awarding gold, ...
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Taut Munich Olympics thriller explores media and terror
A new thriller set in the newsroom of US broadcaster ABC during the 1972 Munich Olympics explores how their journalists were among the first to cover a terror attack on TV in real time, "a turning ...
Former Olympian Cheryl Toussaint continues to lead the pack as director of the Colgate Women’s Games
Cheryl Toussaint was on edge waiting for the baton in the early heats of the 4×400 meter relay at the 1972 Summer Olympics in ...