On September 5, 1972, ... He was a 17-year-old flyweight wrestler traveling with the Israeli Olympic team on Israel's youth team, there to hone his skills to compete in the 1976 Montreal Olympics.

FILE - On Sept. 5, 1972, a Palestinian commando group seizes the Israeli Olympic team quarters at the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany. A member of the commando group is seen here as he appears ...

By Karen BillingIt was 40 years ago this September at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games when an unthinkable tragedy invaded an event meant to symbolize friendship, peace and unity among nations.

A Palestinian terrorist looks from the balcony of the apartment in Munich where members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage on Sept. 5, 1972. AP JERUSALEM — The wife of one of 11 ...

Shaul Ladany, who was on the Israeli Olympic team, was asleep in a neighboring room at the time. He told CNN in 2012 that his roommate told him wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg had been fatally shot.

Picture shows the entrance of the house where eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were kidnapped and then killed by the radical Palestinian group Black September, during the 1972 Munich ...

On Sept. 5, 1972, members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage at the poorly secured athletes’ village by Palestinian gunmen from the Black September group.

Ahead of this year’s Paris Games, Donald Cohan and Jim Moroney, two athletes with Montgomery County ties, recalled the 1972 ...

In the early hours of Sept. 5, eight Palestinians from the “Black September” group raided the Olympic village. They infiltrated the Israeli living quarters and killed an Israeli weightlifter ...

Munich introduced the first-ever Olympic mascot, the dachshund “Waldi,” and its official motto, “the cheerful Games,” looked to project that feel-good spirit.

The 1972 Munich Olympics were marked by historic achievements and unprecedented controversy but will be forever defined by devastating catastrophe.

TEL AVIV, Israel — The 1972 Munich Olympics were marked by historic achievements and unprecedented controversy but will be forever defined by devastating catastrophe. In hosting the… ...