Recollections of Montreal Athletes on Munich Massacre (PDF)

### ### **Recollections of two Olympic athletes - The consequences of the Munich Massacre for the athletes at Montreal and beyond** Melissa Belote Ripley knows from 40 years of experience how the conversation will go before it begins: *You\'re an Olympian. Wow, what sport? Swimming \-- what event...

### ### **Recollections of two Olympic athletes - The consequences of the Munich Massacre for the athletes at Montreal and beyond** Melissa Belote Ripley knows from 40 years of experience how the conversation will go before it begins: *You\'re an Olympian. Wow, what sport? Swimming \-- what events? Did you win any medals? Three golds!* *Which Olympics?* \"You say \'Munich,\' and their face changes immediately,\" says Ripley, who swam for Arizona State University from 1976 to 1979.. Between Munich and the 1976 Montreal Olympics, Ripley traveled internationally extensively. She remembers a competition in Israel where every bus ride included soldiers with machine guns. In Montreal, \"it was just not a comfortable feeling,\" Ripley says. \"Before everything was happy-go-lucky and free and focused on athletics, having fun and doing what you did best. They separated the living quarters from the recreational area, and you went through metal detector after metal detector.\" The \$100 million security tab in Montreal, combined with unexpectedly high construction costs, left Quebec with \$1.5 billion in debt that took 30 years to repay. Gary Hall Sr., a swimming silver medalist in Munich, recalls waits of up to a half-hour to get into the Montreal Olympic Village. \"It was just like going through an airport terminal now. That\'s become our way of life. It was very distasteful to me at that time and took away some of the fun. Unfortunately, that\'s the way it has to be. It\'s almost become cost-prohibitive\" to host the Olympics, \"but you cannot afford to have that ever happen again.\" \"The true spirit of the Olympic Games died that night,\" Ripley says. \"It all to me goes back to Munich. That\'s where we became a different world, where everything changed and the Olympics changed.\" **Source: [http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2012/07/07/20120707arizona-athlete-munich-olympics.htm](http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2012/07/07/20120707arizona-athlete-munich-olympics.html#ixzz48z9fkmBF).** **[Analysis:]** a. b\) Identify **THREE** consequences of the Munich Massacre evident in this source.