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In reply to the discussion: A reminder...in 1968, just before the Mexico City Olympics... [View all]burrowowl
(17,639 posts)54. Kick!
My Aunt was a Professor of Mathematics there at the time and was disgusted and more.
This is remembered in Mexico, unlike what happens in the US of A by 'Mercuns"
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these were athletes competing in the olympics , i don't see what hte point of this is
JI7
Jul 2012
#4
Wrong. I grieved for the Munich athletes(and all the victims of historic antisemitism)
Ken Burch
Jul 2012
#25
I agree that Echeverria should be tried. Please don't think I'd disagree with you on that.
Ken Burch
Jul 2012
#9
While we're on the subject, the two U.S. athletes who did protest the 1968 Games
KamaAina
Jul 2012
#12
I guess you can go some place and find your own lil' Utopia. When you do, let me know
demosincebirth
Jul 2012
#61
If you can't see why it's legitimate to acknowledge the 40th anniversary of what happened in Munich,
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#45
I agree that all human life is of equal value, but all human life doesnt get to play in the olympics
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2012
#47
Why not just do away with the Olympics and make most of us happy. We can't even discuss them
demosincebirth
Jul 2012
#60