19 Vintage Photos from the Olympics — from Jesse Owens' Historic Feat to Michael Phelps' Record-Breaking Streak

Dorothy Hyman, Wilma Rudolph and Giuseppina Leone shake hands while standing on the podium at the 1960 Olympics. U.S. swimmer ...
PBS

The Games

Tragedy strikes the 1972 Olympics when terrorists attack the Israeli team live on TV. September 5, 1972: During the 1972 Munich Olympics—the first Olympic Games to be broadcast live on television—the ...

Geoffrey Mason, TV producer of 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis, dies at 85

Geoffrey Mason, who had a five-decade career in sports television and was best known as the coordinating producer for ABC’s ...
Chicago Sun-Times

'September 5': ABC Sports team gets serious in a pulse-pounding look back at '72 Olympics crisis

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This year’s Olympic torch was designed to disappear

Carlo Ratti, the designer of this year’s torch, explains what his torch says about this moment in time. An Olympic torch is a ...
WBAL-TV

Ryan Cochran-Siegle follows in his mother's Olympic footsteps

Ryan Cochran-S Siegel is no stranger to the slopes. His rise and run and alpine skiing firmly has roots in his mother's success in the Olympics back in 1972. Don't let the black and white fool you, ...