International Olympic Committee president ignores mounting pressure to commemorate 11 Israeli athletes slain in 1972 terror attack at Munich games to observe moment of silence during broadcast of Olympics opening ceremony. Rogge says, "The opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident."
There will be not be a minute's silence for the 11 Israelis massacred in Munich in 1972 when the 2012 Olympic Games open in London on Friday, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has ruled.
Rogge said Saturday there would be the traditional private commemoration with the Israeli Olympic Committee and the IOC, but no minute of silence at the opening ceremony of the games.
Israel has tried for decades to get the IOC to hold an official commemoration for the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches murdered by terrorists from the Black September movement in 1972. Ankie Spitzer, widow of slain athlete Andrei Spitzer, this year started a petition asking the IOC to observe a minute of silence during the London games.
Source: IsraelHayom
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