| 03:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. China - Switzerland | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Canada - Norway | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. South Korea- Finland | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. USA - Russia | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. USA - Canada | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. South Korea - China | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Finland - Switzerland | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Russia - Norway | qualification |
| 02:35 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Russia - Finland | qualification |
| 02:35 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. South Korea - Norway | qualification |
| 02:35 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. China - Canada | qualification |
| 02:35 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. USA - Switzerland | qualification |
| 07:35 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Canada - Finland | qualification |
| 07:35 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. USA - South Korea | qualification |
| 07:35 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Switzerland - Norway | qualification |
| 07:35 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. China - Russia | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. China - USA | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Norway - Finland | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Canada - Switzerland | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. South Korea - Russia | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Switzerland - South Korea | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Russia - Canada | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Finland - China | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. mixed couples. Preliminary round. Norway - USA | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Canada - Italy | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. South Korea - USA | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Switzerland - UK | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Denmark - Sweden | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Denmark - Sweden | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Switzerland - China | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Japan - USA | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Russia - UK | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Norway - Japan | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Switzerland - Italy | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Canada - UK | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. South Korea - Sweden | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Canada - South Korea | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. UK - USA | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Denmark - Japan | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. China - Russia | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Norway - Canada | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. USA - Italy | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Denmark - Switzerland | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. UK - Japan | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. South Korea - Japan | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. China - UK | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Canada - Sweden | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. USA - Switzerland | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Italy - Denmark | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Sweden - USA | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Norway - South Korea | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Sweden - Russia | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Denmark - Canada | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. South Korea - Switzerland | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Denmark - USA | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Sweden - UK | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Japan - Switzerland | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Canada - South Korea | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Switzerland - Sweden | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Denmark - UK | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Japan - China | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Russia - USA | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Canada - Sweden | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. South Korea - UK | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Switzerland - Norway | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Japan - Italy | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Russia - Japan | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. South Korea - UK | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. USA - Canada | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. China - Denmark | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Norway - Denmark | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. USA - Japan | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Switzerland - Canada | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Canada - Switzerland | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. China - South Korea | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. UK - Sweden | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. USA - Norway | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Denmark - South Korea | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Italy - UK | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Sweden - Japan | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. USA - Denmark | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Russia - Switzerland | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Sweden - South Korea | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Japan - Canada | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. USA - Canada | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Italy - South Korea | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Sweden - Switzerland | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. UK - Denmark | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Japan - Sweden | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Denmark - Russia | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. China - USA | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. UK - Switzerland | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. UK - Norway | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Italy - Sweden | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Japan - Canada | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. South Korea - Switzerland | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Canada - China | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. USA - South Korea | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. UK - Japan | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Norway - Italy | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Japan - Denmark | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Switzerland - USA | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. South Korea - Russia | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Sweden - China | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Canada - UK | qualification |
| 03:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Switzerland - Denmark | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. South Korea - Japan | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Denmark - Canada | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. UK - USA | qualification |
| 08:05 | Curling. Men. Preliminary round. Sweden - Norway | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. South Korea - Denmark | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Sweden - USA | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Russia - Canada | qualification |
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Preliminary round. Switzerland - Japan | qualification |
| 14:00 | Skating. Women. Team race. Semi-finals | semi-final |
| 14:22 | Skating. Men. Team race. Semi-finals | semi-final |
| 14:54 | Skating. Women. Team race. Consolation finals | consolation playoffs |
| 15:13 | Skating. Men. Team race. Consolation finals | consolation playoffs |
| 15:52 | Skating. Women. Team race. Small final | for 3rd place |
| 15:58 | Skating. Women. Team race. The final | the final |
| 16:11 | Skating. Men. Team race. Small final | for 3rd place |
| 16:17 | Skating. Men. Team race. The final | the final |
| 05:00 | Snowboard. Men. big air | the final |
| 06:00 | Snowboard. Women. Parallel giant slalom. 1/8 finals | 1/8 finals |
| 06:15 | Snowboard. Men. Parallel giant slalom. 1/8 finals | 1/8 finals |
| 06:30 | Snowboard. Women. Parallel giant slalom. Quarterfinals | 1/4 finals |
| 06:38 | Snowboard. Men. Parallel giant slalom. Quarterfinals | 1/4 finals |
| 06:48 | Snowboard. Women. Parallel giant slalom. Semi-finals | semi-final |
| 06:52 | Snowboard. Men. Parallel giant slalom. Semi-finals | semi-final |
| 08:28 | Snowboard. Women. Parallel giant slalom. Small final | for 3rd place |
| 08:30 | Snowboard. Women. Parallel giant slalom. The final | the final |
| 08:34 | Snowboard. Men. Parallel giant slalom. Small final | for 3rd place |
| 08:37 | Snowboard. Men. Parallel giant slalom. The final | the final |
| 09:35 | Curling. Men. The final. Sweden - USA | the final | |||
| 14:05 | Curling. Women. Small final. Japan - UK | 32 | 5 | 10 | |
| 12 | Russia | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 |
| 13 | Czech Republic | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 14 | Belarus | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 15 | China | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 |
| 16 | Slovakia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 17 | Finland | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 18 | United Kingdom | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 19 | Poland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 20 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 21 | Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 22 | Australia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 23 | Slovenia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 25 | Spain | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 26 | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 27 | Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 28 | Latvia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 29 | Liechtenstein | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The 1972 Summer Olympics featured 7,134 athletes from 121 countries. Albania, Upper Volta, Gabon, Dahomey, North Korea, Lesotho, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Somalia, Togo sent their athletes for the first time. Sets of awards were played in 23 sports. For the first time during the Olympic Games, the official mascot of the event was presented, it was the multi-colored dachshund Waldi.
According to the results of the competition, the leaders in the medal standings were athletes from the USSR, who won 50 gold, 27 silver and 22 bronze medals. Interestingly, the Soviet athletes were tasked with winning at least 50 gold medals in honor of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Olympians coped with the task. Team USA came in second with 33 gold, 31 silver and 30 bronze medals. Third place went to the GDR with 20 gold, 23 silver and 23 bronze medals.
Athletics competitions were very stubborn. Soviet sprinter Valery Borzov managed to win two gold medals at once, breaking the undivided monopoly of the Americans. For domestic athletes, these were the first gold medals in the sprint. Viktor Saneev won his second gold medal in the triple jump. Leningrad student Yuri Tarmak became the champion in the high jump, having cleared a height of 223 cm. Olga Korbut performed brilliantly, winning three medals at once the highest standard and one silver.
A sensational result was shown in Munich by Cuban boxers trained Soviet coach Andrei Chervonenko, they won three gold medals. Just a little behind them boxers from the USSR with two gold medals. All but one of the gold medals went to Soviet rowers in rowing and canoeing. In freestyle and classical wrestling wrestlers from the USSR won 9 gold medals.
Not without sports sensations - in particular, American swimmer Mark Spitz achieved unprecedented success, winning seven gold medals at once and setting seven world records.
Unfortunately, the Munich tragedy was overshadowed by the capture of Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists on September 5th. A very unprofessional attempt by the police to free the hostages resulted in the deaths of eleven athletes and one policeman. It was this tragedy that prompted the intelligence services of the world to create special groups in the fight against terrorism.
It was decided to continue the Olympics. One of the reasons for this decision was the desire to show that the efforts of terrorists cannot break the spirit of the athletes, and the Olympic Games are above any political differences.
Tip 2: Where the 1972 Summer Olympics were held
The 20th Summer Olympic Games in 1972 were held in Munich from 26 August to 10 September. A record number of athletes arrived in Germany and national teams. For the first time representatives of Albania took part in the Olympic competitions, Saudi Arabia, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Somalia and a number of other countries. Unfortunately, the 1972 Olympics were remembered not only sports achievements.
Before the start of the Olympics in Munich, for the first time, a subway was built, the city center was completely reconstructed, and the road system was re-created. New complex sports facilities consisted of an Olympic village for 10 thousand inhabitants, an Olympic stadium for 80 thousand seats, a sports palace, a large swimming pool, a cycle track for 13 thousand seats and others gyms and sites. Especially for the Games, a new Olympic stadium (Olympiastadion) was built, the unusual roof design of which resembled a spider web.
Most of the Olympic venues in Munich were equipped with modern means of urgent information for that time (electronic computers, scoreboards, measuring instruments using a laser beam, copying equipment for printing press bulletins, etc.). The possibilities of television were widely used, thanks to which the Olympic Games were able to see more than a billion people on all continents.
September 5, 1972, an unprecedented tragedy in the history of sports. The terrorists of the Palestinian organization at 04:30 managed to get into one of the pavilions of the Olympic village. They took hostage several members of the Israeli delegation, 11 of whom were subsequently killed, and a German policeman was also killed. This incident shocked the whole world, but it was decided to continue the games.
Soviet athletes faced a difficult task, it was necessary to win 50 gold medals by the 50th anniversary of the USSR, surpassing the USA. They did it, winning exactly 50 top-notch awards, while US Olympians won 33 medals. In total, the participants of the USSR received at the Summer Olympic Games ah 1972 99 medals, of which 27 silver and 22 bronze.
The men's basketball team of the Soviet Union received gold medals for the first time, defeating the US team in a tense match. Two gold medals were left for the Soviet boxers: Vyacheslav Lemeshev from Moscow and Boris Kuznetsov from Astrakhan. Freestyle wrestlers received five gold medals. Soviet gymnasts showed themselves at a very high level, winning several gold medals in various competitions. All the gold medals in canoeing and kayaking for both women and men went to Soviet rowers. Competitions of the XX Summer Olympic Games showed high level training for all participants. During their holding, 94 Olympic and 46 world records were set.
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The first Olympic Games in post-war Germany took place 27 years after the end of World War II. In 1972, the XX Summer Olympics were held in Munich with the motto "Happy Games" and a shining blue sun in the logo. Unfortunately, the mournful color of terrorism from the Palestinian "Black September" has also been added to the palette of games.
The venue for the Summer Olympic Games with the twentieth anniversary number was determined in 1966 in Rome. After that, a large-scale program of preparations for the sports festival was launched in Munich. Dozens of sports facilities with the latest equipment were built, including a stadium for 80,000 seats, a cycle track, a swimming pool, a sports complex, etc. In addition to sports facilities, an “Olympic village” for 15,000 athletes appeared, and even a metro appeared in the city for the XX Olympics.
The opening ceremony of the games, which was attended by almost 7,200 Olympians from 121 countries, took place on August 26, 1972. The very next day, the first two Olympic champions became known, and a total of 195 sets of awards were presented at these games. The undisputed hero of the Olympics was the American Mark Spitz - the swimmer went to the start seven times and each time won the gold medal. At the same time, all heats ended with a new world record. In total, 46 world records and 94 Olympic records were broken in Munich. Athletes of the Soviet Union also took part in this. So Lyudmila Bragina three times improved the world achievement at a one and a half kilometer distance among runners. Another runner - Valery Borzov - managed to win two gold and one silver medals. In general, the party and the government set the task for the Soviet team to win 50 gold awards and beat the Americans in the medal standings by the 50th anniversary of the USSR. The Olympians were able to solve the task, having risen to the highest step of the podium exactly 50 times, and supplemented this number with another 49 awards of other denominations. The Americans received only five awards less, but were significantly behind in the number of gold medals (17 less).
On the 11th day of the Olympics, the largest terrorist attack in the history of the games occurred. Five Palestinian terrorists from the Black September organization infiltrated the Olympic village and took nine members of the Israeli delegation hostage, killing two athletes in the process. The terrorists demanded that they be taken with the hostages to the airport and provided with a helicopter, which the German authorities complied with. At the airport, an attempt was made to free the hostages, which failed - the terrorists killed the hostages, and there were three of them alive. olympic competitions were stopped that day, but then the IOC decided to continue the games.
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Tip 4: What happened at the 1972 Munich Olympics
The 1972 Summer Olympics were held in the German city of Munich, the capital of the federal state of Bavaria, in the south of Germany. In the six years that have passed since the choice of this city as the venue for the Olympics, the organizers of the games have done a great job.
Enormous funds were invested in the improvement of Munich, building a subway, many new hotels, reconstructing the central part of the city. A huge Olympic stadium for 80 thousand seats with an original roof resembling a cobweb was erected, as well as a number of other sports facilities where the participants of the games were to compete. Moreover, all these facilities were equipped with the most modern technical devices at that time.
The opening ceremony of the Olympics took place on August 26. The competition was attended by 7170 athletes who fought for 195 sets of medals. The USSR team performed brilliantly, winning the most gold medals - 50. The US team, which took second place, had 33 of them.
Unfortunately this wonderful sports holiday was overshadowed by tragedy. At dawn on September 5, Palestinian terrorists entered the Olympic village, killed two members of the Israeli sports delegation and took nine more hostage. The terrorists demanded the release of several hundred prisoners, and a little later put forward an additional demand - to provide them with an airplane to Cairo, as well as the opportunity to freely reach the airfield along with the hostages. As a result of the hastily planned and insufficiently professionally executed rescue operation, all nine hostages, five terrorists and one policeman were killed. Three terrorists were captured alive.
Before the members of the International Olympic Committee(IOC) a very serious question arose: how to respond to this egregious incident, whether to continue the games or end them? In addition, many athletes, including the surviving members of the Israeli team, announced their departure from Munich. After a difficult discussion and a one-day break, the IOC decided to continue the Olympics. The competition ended on September 10th.
This tragedy led to a sharp increase in security measures at subsequent Olympics, especially in the Olympic villages. Also, in many countries, special anti-terrorist units have been created.
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Tip 5: How the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics ended
The 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, were overshadowed by a tragic event - a terrorist attack organized by the radical Palestinian group Black September. As a result, on September 5, 11 members of the Israeli delegation were taken hostage - athletes, coaches and judges. During the operation to free the hostages, carried out by the German special services, all of them, as well as 5 terrorists, died. But the terrorist attack at the Olympic Games in Munich did not end there.
Israel, for which what happened was a national tragedy, was not satisfied with the results of the investigation of the terrorist act. The surviving terrorists and those involved in organizing the attack were detained by the German police, but under the threat of new attacks, which the Palestinians promised to carry out, the detainees were released as a result of the exchange. The bodies of five dead Palestinians, at the insistence of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, were handed over to Palestine, where they were named national heroes and buried with great pomp.
Of course, this state of affairs did not suit Israel at all, since the perpetrators of the deaths of athletes were not punished either under state or international laws. The question of adequate retaliatory measures, or, more simply, of revenge, was raised at the highest state level.
The operation "Wrath of God" began, which was carried out by the Israeli intelligence "Mossad". Its goal was the physical elimination of all participants in the terrorist attack and the people involved in it. There were 17 of them. The punishment for the terrorists was not long in coming - already in October 1972, one of the organizers of the terrorist attack was shot dead. Nine months after the tragedy, 13 people were already marked with crosses on the Mossad list.
Two more Palestinians involved in the murder of athletes died later. The remaining two from the Mossad list escaped punishment, one of them died in 2010, the second, the only survivor, is hiding in one of the African countries.
The London Olympics 2012 marks the 40th anniversary of the events in Munich. Members of the IOC, athletes and residents of London honored the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack on July 23. After the ceremony, there was a moment of silence at the Truce Wall, symbolizing the peacekeeping idea of the Olympic Games. More than 100 people attended the event, including IOC President Jacques Rogge, head organizing committee Olympics in London, Lord Coe, as well as the mayor of the city B. Johnson.
On September 5, 1972, armed Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group freely entered the territory of the Olympics and took 11 Israeli athletes hostage. It happened at 4:10 am. Munich was completely unprepared for such a development of events: unarmed guards, a decorative fence around the Olympic Village. Radical extremists demanded the release from Israeli prisons of 232 members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, two German terrorists and 16 prisoners in prisons in Western Europe.
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir refused to negotiate with terrorists. The Israeli secret services offered their help in releasing the hostages, but the Germans did not accept it. As a result, all 11 athletes were killed. 5 militants and one German policeman Anton Fliegerbauer were also killed. Cynically as it may seem, the death of a policeman turned out to be useful for the perception of what happened: both peoples suffered at the hands of extremists, and it was possible to express participation and sympathy to Israel without guilt. The names of the dead Israelis: David Berger, Yosef Romano, Moshe Weinberg, Eliezer Khalfin, Zeev Friedman, Mark Slavin, Andrei Spitzer, Kehat Shor, Amitsur Shapiro, Yaakov Springer.
At the request of Israel to interrupt the Olympic Games, the German authorities responded in the negative. They motivated this decision by the fact that "retreat" would mean the victory of world terrorism, obedience to it. So, sports were continued the next day. Soviet Union in the end, he took 50 gold medals, the USA - 33. It is curious to note that every fifth "gold" of the American team belongs to the Jew Mark Spitz.
The security actions of the German police are considered one of the most failed operations in the history of the special services. Is it a coincidence? The authoritative German publication Der Spiegel ("Mirror") publishes some documents related to the events of forty years ago. These documents indicate that the German secret services were warned twice about the impending terrorist attack. However, they underestimated the importance of the information received and were sure that the Black September group was poorly prepared and would not be able to “turn around” in a city crowded with guests, and therefore let things take their course.
At the same time, it became known that German neo-Nazis assisted Black September. Wolfgang Abramowski and Willy Pohl, members of the National Socialist Resistance Group for Greater Germany, worked closely with the terrorists. Perhaps these were echoes of National Socialism, allegedly “fallen” 27 years ago. By the way, the Bavarian capital Munich is geographically adjacent to the infamous Dachau concentration camp. Coincidence?
For the next 40 years, Germany has been trying to cover up the traces of its mistakes. Meanwhile, the Israeli intelligence Mossad is deploying an operation called "The Wrath of God." "Israel will apply all the forces and abilities that our people are endowed with to overtake the terrorists, wherever they are," Golda Meir said in the Knesset. A list of priority tasks was drawn up with the goal of neutralizing and eliminating not only Black September, but the entire terrorist network in Europe. How long will extremists "rape" public peace?
Summer 2012 is marked by the Olympic Games in London. Enormous security measures have been taken here. The Olympic village is surrounded by 18 kilometers of electric fences, protected by 13.5 thousand soldiers, many dog training units, anti-aircraft guns and fighters are prepared. On the one hand, such pragmatism is justified, on the other hand, the Peace and Friendship holiday turns into a tense expectation. Will the true atmosphere of the Olympics have to be a thing of the past? It is important to understand that extremism can only be defeated by the combined efforts of the entire world community.
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Several cities claimed to host the 1996 Olympic Games: Athens, Belgrade, Manchester, Melbourne, Toronto and Atlanta. The favorites, of course, were Athens - the 100th anniversary of the first Olympics was planned and they wanted to hold it in Greece. But the members of the Atlanta bid committee were able to convince the IOC of the city's excellent and highest readiness for Summer Games. As a result, on September 18, 1990, at the 96th session of the IOC, the capital Summer Olympics 1996 Atlanta was announced.
Mascot of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
It was decided to generate it on a computer. As a result, the creature came out strange: barefoot without a nose and mouth. The designers tried to give Izzy more attractive appearance: a big mouth, a tail studded with Olympic rings, funny boots and white gloves. Then I added sparkle-star eyes. The creature's name Izzy is short for Whatisit? ("What it is?"). He is considered one of the worst mascots of the Olympics.
Opening of the 1996 Olympics
The ceremony took place on July 19, 1996 at Olympic Stadium in Atlanta. The broadcast was carried out by 170 television companies, and about 3.5 billion viewers watched it. The main themes of the presentation were the history of Atlanta and South America, as well as the 100th anniversary of the Olympic Movement. 
The parade was attended by 10,700 athletes from 197 participating countries. The Russian Flag was carried at the ceremony by wrestler Alexander Karelin, who later won his third Olympic gold medal in Atlanta.
After a speech by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch and Games Organizing Committee President Billy Payne, US President Bill Clinton declared the 1996 Olympics open. The Olympic flag was raised and the Fire lit, the torch was brought by swimmer Janet Evans and boxer Evander Holyfield, and lit former boxer Muhammad Ali.
The culmination was the song "The Power of Dreams" performed by famous singer Celine Dion and then colorful fireworks.
Russia at the 1996 Olympics
The Russian team at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta for the first time performed as a separate country. According to the results of the medal count of the 1996 Olympics, the Russian team won second place after the US team. The Russians received 63 medals: 26 gold, 21 silver and 16 bronze.
Most of the winners were among swimmers, wrestlers, fencers and athletes. Swimmer Alexander Popov was able to win 4 medals: 2 gold and 2 silver, and became a four-time Olympic champion.
Criticism of the organization of the 1996 Olympics
Athletes, journalists and officials were very dissatisfied with the organization of the Games. Lots of problems from traffic, numerous failures in the operation of information systems, unpreparedness of volunteers, too strong commercialization of the Olympics in Atlanta.
But the most serious incident was the explosion in Olympic park On July 27, at night, during which 2 people died during mass celebrations, 111 people were injured of varying severity. After many assurances from the organizers of increased security measures, the 1996 Summer Olympics decided to continue.
The offender was detained only a year later after several more terrorist attacks and was given four life sentences with deprivation of the right to parole.
Closing of the 1996 Summer Olympics
At the ceremony, Juan Antonio Samaranch, President of the IOC, the first and last time did not say the phrase "These Games were the best in history."
The closing ceremony took place at the Olympic Stadium on August 4 and was attended by more than 85,000 people. Many American musicians took part in it. At the ceremony, the last awards of the Summer Olympics were presented to the winners in the men's marathon.
The final parade showed Olympic unity - all athletes walked together without separation by country.
In his speech, Juan Antonio Samaranch called to remember the victims of the Atlanta park bombing and the Israeli athletes who died in Munich in 1972.
The Olympic flag was lowered, and the banner was presented with the measure of Sydney, the capital next Games. It all ended with a magnificent fireworks display.
Doping scandal at the 1996 Games
On 28 July, IOC representatives announced that the tests Russian athletes: Swimmer Andrei Korneev, cyclist Rita Razmayte and wrestler Zafar Guliyev tested positive for the banned drug bromantane.
Then bromantane was found: at the swimmer Nina Zhivanevskaya - on July 30, at the runner Marina Trandenkova - on August 1. All caught athletes were disqualified and the won medals were taken away. But after arbitration court in Lausanne, when it was found out that the drug was banned during the Games, but not blacklisted, the results of the athletes were restored and the medals returned.