When was the terrorist attack at the olympics

The Munich massacre on 5 September is one of the darkest chapter's in Olympic history. Eleven members of the Israeli team were taken hostage inside the Olympic village by Palestinian gunmen from the Black September group.

Two were shot dead almost immediately, while the others were killed during a gun battle with West German police at a nearby airfield, as the militants tried to take them out of the country. May their memory be blessed," he wrote wrote on Twitter. Relatives of those killed sought for them to be remembered at opening ceremonies but the International Olympic Committee IOC had previously ignored the calls.

The IOC faced criticism after rejecting a request for a minute's silence at the London Games to mark the 40th anniversary of the attack. Organisers said the ceremony was not a "fit" atmosphere for a tribute. The Munich massacre remembered. Two of the Israelis were murdered in the Olympic Village. The Palestinian terrorists kidnapped another nine and demanded the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, as well as two prominent West German leftist militants.

After a failed attempt by German security forces to retake the hostages, the Palestinians turned their weapons on the Israelis, killing them all. Their individual stories can be read in this blog post. For the first time since , the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Olympics are remembered at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Games.

Families of the Munich victims have campaigned for years for greater public recognition for the dead from the International Olympic Committee. The IOC faced criticism for refusing to hold a moment of silence for the Israeli victims during the opening of the London Games, 40 years after the attack. This story was sent on the AP wire in the early-morning hours of July 27, , as the city of Atlanta awakened to news of a deadly bombing in Centennial Olympic Park.

The story, an early take on the first terrorist attack at the Olympics since the Munich Games, is reprinted here as it ran using the contemporary style, terminology and including any published errors. The blast shattered windows, rocked buildings and echoed through downtown, where thousands of people have gathered every night since the Olympic Games began July The park, which is within walking distance of three major Olympic venues, was packed with people, many of whom ran through the streets in tears.

There were at least 10 athletes from Cuba and Argentina a few feet a meter from the blast, said Sheryly Fillmore, a friend of a Cuban judo competitor.

While people pass through metal detectors at all Olympic venues, anyone is free to walk through the park. Officials in Atlanta said they would not halt the competition. When Palestinian terrorists attacked Israeli athletes and coaches, organizers suspended the Games for mourning. Word spread fairly quickly. Two people were killed and injured, Johnson said. Hospitals said the injured included people apparently hit by shrapnel. A doctor said he saw a lot of fractures and one person with a finger blown off.

Authorities cordoned off the area for several blocks around, turning downtown into a ghost town.