terrorism in munich olympics

When Ilana Romano heard her husband was among the Israeli athletes held by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics, she expected the worst. "I knew who he was. He would not sit quietly. He was not the type," she recalled. "I knew it would end badly." She was right. Yossi Romano made his move in the dormitory thast day 25 years ago, trying to overpower his well-armed Black September captors with a kitchen knife. They shot …

…and the Olympic Committee decided not to cancel the Games following the murders. The competition was renewed after a break of only 24 hours. No country or Olympic team joined Israel's call to halt the Games. Only five individual sportsmen, non-Jews, left the Games for reasons of conscience. At the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, Israel's Yael Arad wins the silver medal in women's judo, 61-kg class, and dedicates it to the memory of those killed in Munich.