“The games must go on!” insisted Avery Brundage, then-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at a hastily arranged memorial service for 11 Israeli Olympians and coaches murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the Munich Summer Games in 1972. As we know, those games did go on, despite fervent pleas for their cancellation from around the world. “It’s like dancing on Dachau!” opined a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
