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To: C19fan

The hosts of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games should not be claiming any other host country’s games are a disaster.


2 posted on 07/18/2012 7:15:58 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Your post number 2.

On the 1972 Olympic Games and the massacre of the Israeli athletes, I could not believe it had skipped my mind. Yes, perhaps a fault of the German critics, though at least they are free to run down their former adversaries.

I might get by with another digression and I grin when I read of the Battle of Waterloo. The Germans saved the Duke of Wellington. Blucher, was the name.

28 posted on 07/18/2012 12:06:00 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
The first games awarded to Germany was in 1916. That one got canceled. They did host the 1936 Winter and Summer games (the first one ever to have NOCs boycott). And you touched on 1972.

Letting the Germans host he games is a bad idea.

34 posted on 07/18/2012 7:35:30 PM PDT by JAWs (Ne puero gladium)
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