Posted on 09/05/22
| News Source: i24
'She said 'terror' and I knew something was wrong,' Olympic athlete Shlomit Nir Tor says
Shlomit Nir Tor was barely 20 years old at the time, and already participating in her second Olympic games. She was one of two women in the Israeli delegation to the 1972 Munich Olympics, along with sprinter Esther Roth.
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"It was the first time I went to Germany, although my mother was born in Dortmund. But she came to Israel just before the war, while her parents were killed during the Holocaust,” Nir said.
“So going to Munich was very special. We could feel that the Germans wanted to show the world that Germany had changed.”
The Israeli delegation comprised 22 people - athletes, coaches, and referees. They were accommodated at the rear of the Olympic village. In those days, they were not accompanied by Israeli security personnel or Germans for that matter.
"Nobody had imagined that something would happen," Nir noted.