Munich 1972

The Munich 1972 Olympic Games were the largest setting records in all categories with 195 events, 7173 athletes from 121 nations. They celebrated peace and, for the first ten days, all indeed go well. But, at 5 September early morning, eight Palestinian terrorists broke into the Olympic Village, killed two members of the Israeli team and took nine more prisoners. The Archery was reintroduced to Olympic after 52 years and handball after 36 years. Whitewater canoeing and kayaking was included for the first time in Munich.

In the Munich Games the tiny Soviet gymnast, Olga Korbut, whose dramatic cycle of success in the team competition, failure in the individual competition and renewed success in the apparatus finals captured the attention of fans worldwide. On 26 August 1972, Opening Ceremony was made. Athlet Günter Zahn lights the Olympic Flame on the Olympic ceremony and the Olympic oath was taken by Heidi schuller (athletics). The official opening of the Olympics was made by President Gustav Heinemann. 195 events were conducted in the Olympics and 7134 athletes participated out of that 1059 women and 6075 men.