Frank Shorter couldn’t have imagined the impact his 1972 Olympic marathon victory would have on the sport. “I was just a piece in the puzzle,” he said.
Fifty years after a painful, and controversial, loss to the Soviet Union in the 1972 Olympics, some American men’s basketball players still hope to be declared the rightful winners.
Fifty years after a painful, and controversial, loss to the Soviet Union in the 1972 Olympics, some American men’s basketball players still hope to be declared the rightful winners.
Early reaction to the end of the 70-year monarchy. Also: Germany’s “moral failure”; women’s equality; Moosewood memories; homage to trees.
Advocates said the battle was also about a broader cultural acceptance of Black hair.
Palestinian militants killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in 1972. Decades later Germany asked the victims’ families for forgiveness for not keeping the delegation safe.
The former swimmer said it was “like an out-of-body experience” to win seven gold medals at the 1972 Munich Games and then learn that terrorists had attacked Israelis at the Olympic Village.
The Israeli and German governments announced an agreement after the families said they would boycott a memorial observing the 1972 attack over what they called insufficient recompense.
Florida health officials told Special Olympics that the vaccine requirement violated state law.