Talk:1972 Summer Olympics

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I do not like this article. The first thing it mentions about the Games is this terrible terrorist massacre. Why? That is yellow press-style not that of an encyclopedia.

mac_c 22:09, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Unfortunately, the massacre is probably what people remember most about the games. It should not be buried deep in the article. Funnyhat 21:32, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

In case someone has this on their watchlist, please see if you can answer my question at Wikipedia:Reference desk#Ymer Pampuri. Thanks, Dori | Talk 17:31, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)

We should find a better headline than "Highlights" for the section whose first entry is the terrorist incident. AxelBoldt 10:23, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've converted it to "Facts". Hopefully this will be better. --Jeroenvrp 01:47, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I have added a little bit more information (second and third paragraph) on the Games in general and corrected the info on the Munich Massacre. As english is not my first language I hope someone will correct all mistakes I made. Thank you! Dani_skr 21:23, 26 Sep 2005 (GMT)

Could someone who knows their history better than I add either "West" or "East" before the first mention of "Germany"? Thanks.

It was West Germany. I've amended the article to reflect that. -- Jonel | Speak 03:53, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Double Terrorist Coverage

In the opening paragraphs it describes the terrorist attack twice in quick succession. Which one should be deleted?

[edit] spielberg?

The fact that Steven Spielberg made a hollywood film about the massacre more than 30 years after it happened does not seem noteworthy enough to mention in the first section of the article. Why not talk about the massacre itself rather than a distorted, biased interpretation of it?

[edit] Did China participate this year, or not?

Why is Republic of China colored grey on the map of participating nations? They are listed in the "Participating Nations" section of the article, but they are not green on the map, so one has to be incorrect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.129.71.19 (talk) 00:33, 9 January 2007 (UTC).

Republic of China (Taiwan) is colored green on the map. You sure you dont mean Mainland China --Astrokey44 00:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prefontaine

Prefontaine was a long-distance runner, not middle distance. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.192.52.62 (talk • contribs).

[edit] What's up with this?

"During the Munich attack, an interesting discovery was found. West Germany had played the games. East Germany however decided not to enter. They secretly were providing plans and weapons for Black September. Creepy isn't it?"

Needless to say, someone needs to take a look at this... Asm82 22:19, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

You were completely right to remove it. I've warned the person who added it (it was added about 2 hours before you saw and deleted it) about adding unsourced theories such as that; if there were any reliable sources indicating that East Germany was complicit in the attacks, I'm pretty sure there would already be some mention of such a major point. -- Jonel | Speak 03:19, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possibly inflammatory, libelous and un-encyclopedic

However, after the vehement protests of FIBA secretary general R. William Jones of Great Britain, the referees added three seconds back to the clock due to error in re-starting the clock. Jones had no authority to intervene during a game, but his reputation was such that the officials dared not disobey him.

Jones stated in an interview a few years later that if he had not intervened, the Soviets would have had grounds for a protest, as the coach had legally and properly requested a time-out, which the officials failed to give him. I don't know what the FIBA rules were at the time (they have probably changed since then, and they have always been different from the NBA and NCAA rules to which most Americans are accustomed), but they may have given the secretary-general the authority to do just what he did. Since the secretary-general was essentially the person who wrote the rulebook, he would have known whether or not his actions were correct. In any case, the above statement should be sourced, re-worked to be less inflammatory, or simply deleted. 71.142.74.28 19:41, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] LOL

The Only Reason Anyone Would Come To This Article Is For *"Munich Massacre"* SapientiaSativa 03:40, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Participating countries

According to the IOC and to the info in the infobox 121 countries participated. The number of countries which is listed at the "Participating countries" sums up to 123. Any idea what the reason could be? Miho NL (talk) 21:55, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Guinea was a mistake, and I removed that. Not sure about the other one yet... The list of 122 is directly from the official report of the Games, and my guess is that one of the smaller nations sent one or two people that ended up not competing. That situation has happened before. It would likely be uncovered when we get around to adding the individual results to all the "Nation at the 1972 Summer Olympics" pages. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 22:07, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I checked with the data on [1]. They list 121 countries and in our list there is Libya extra. Libya is not coloured on the map, but the source of this map is this same olympic museum. Maybe this helps you further? Miho NL (talk) 00:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, that's it. Libya entered three cyclists (per official report here, page 554) but they were all no-shows for their respective events. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 00:30, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Architect

We need to know the architect that involved in the studies of soap bubbles. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.185.205.1 (talk) 18:00, 1 May 2008 (UTC)