Bob HammelSpecial to Herald-TimesEditor's note: Bob Hammel covered the 1972 Munich Olympics for the Bloomington Herald-Telephone, by far the smallest U.S. newspaper to have a credentialed reporter there. In the five days to follow, Mark Spitz of Indiana University became the all-time champion in swimming gold medals at one Olympics. Spitz won five in the first five days of swimming and he was far from done. The small Palestinian raiding party that was to make it Black already was assembling in Munich, but nobody in blue-skies, peaceful Munich knew. Everything after that is downhill.”And the question came: In, say, 20 or 25 years, how would you like Mark Spitz the swimmer to be remembered?

Source: The Herald September 04, 2022 09:09 UTC