
Memorial for Munich Massacre after 43 Years
The Munich Massacre gets it's Memorial, but why has it taken 43 years?
The Munich Massacre gets it's Memorial, but why has it taken 43 years?
The murder of 11 members of the Israeli team and a German policeman at the 1972 Olympics was the day that sport lost it's innocence. We hear about this being the Games where it was so commonplace to jump the fence to get into the Athletes' Village that a young Canadian helped the gunmen over the wall, not realising who they were. It's taken the International Olympic Committee until now to fully acknowledge what happened and commission a permanent memorial. A new film addresses why the IOC has been so reluctant to confront the incident and follows the construction of a memorial that cuts into the hill next to what was the Olympic Village - a permanent and deliberate scarring of the landscape to reflect the wounds that were inflicted.
The Flagbearer and the Cyclone
Anolyn Lulu, a Table Tennis player, carried Vanuatu's flag at London 2012. Three weeks ago she woke up in the nation's capital able to see further than she ever could before - because all the trees were gone, so were people's gardens where they grew their food. Her training facilities are so damaged she's "not motivated at all" to prepare for the Rio Olympics. She wants to help her country recover - and remind everyone that they're still there, they didn't die and they will rebuild their nation.
Horses, Big Brother and Sewers
Members of the Bazalgette family have been shaping Britain's history since Victorian times. Simon Bazalgette brokered the first sponsorship deal for student radio, and went onto launch some of Europe's first digital stations. Now the Head of the Jockey Club here in the UK, he's responsible for putting on the greatest horse race of them all in one week from now. Simon talks about The Grand National, about his Great Great Grandfather who built London's Sewers, and about his cousins who've changed the television landscape. Simon also plays Richard's quiz: Is it a horse's name, or the name of a band?
If an Ashes Cricketer can manage a Football team ...
Steve Harmison's move into Football management begs the question, why aren't more elite sportsmen and women able to excel in more than one sport? Clara Hughes is unique - she's won multiple medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics ... in Cycling and Speed Skating. Her's is not the story of an athlete who was good at one, and then tried the other right at the end of their career. Clara switched between the two, from Atlanta, to Vancouver, to London. She tells us why she wanted to, how she did it and why it's getting harder and harder for athletes to have that freedom.
The Ultimate... Fighting Championship
Conor McGregor is the rising star of Mixed Martial Arts, but even when encouraging people to try his sport he adds the warning "stay out of my division". We hear from the Irish fighter who says that the warrior spirit is in his family's blood. A man whose reality TV show has just been bought by Fox for a seven figure sum.
The Ultimate... Frizbee Championship
15 years ago, an American who liked to watch games of Rugby in Kampala started bringing his Frisbee with him. Pretty soon, he got his Ugandan friends interested in throwing it around with him. From there, the country's first "Ultimate" club was established in Kampala and last month Uganda made their World Championship debut.
Sporting Witness
Ahead of next week's Masters at Augusta, we take you back 40 years to the first appearance at the tournament by an African-American player. In 2013, Simon Watts spoke to Lee Elder, who broke one of the final colour barriers in US Sport.
(Image: One of the eight Palestinian terrorists comprising the Black September group stands on a balcony of the Olympic village during a standoff after they kidnapped nine members of the Israeli Olympic team and killed two others September 5, 1972 in Munich, Germany. Credit: Getty Images)
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