The head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) apologized Wednesday for the organization’s longtime failure to commemorate 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Know more:
JERUSALEM—The head of the International Olympic Committee apologized Wednesday for the organization’s longtime failure to commemorate 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian militants at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Germany’s president apologized at a memorial ceremony in Germany for his country’s failures before, during, and after the attack. Israeli President Isaac Herzog said the athletes were “brutally murdered in cold blood by a Palestinian terrorist organization just for being Jews, just because they were Israelis.”
Bach said the attack in Munich was one of “the darkest days in Olympic history” and an assault on the Olympic Games and its values.