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Disqualified - Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics (Hardcover)
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Disqualified - Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics (Hardcover)
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Having previously tied the world record, Eddie Hart was a strong
favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich,
Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after
arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of
training to become the "World's Fastest Human," the title attached
to an Olympic 100-meter champion, was lost in a heartbeat. But who
was to blame? Hart's disappointment, though excruciating, was just
one of many subplots to the most tragic of Olympic Games, at which
eight Arab terrorists assassinated eleven Israeli athletes and
coaches as the world watched in horror. Five terrorists were
killed, but three escaped to their homeland as heroes and were
never brought to trial. Swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals
but was rushed out of Germany afterward because he was Jewish.
Other American athletes, besides Hart, seemed jinxed in Munich. The
USA men's basketball team thought it had earned the gold medal, but
the Russians received it instead through an unprecedented
technicality. Bob Seagren, the defending pole vault champion, was
barred from using his poles and forced to compete with unfamiliar
poles. And swimmer Rick DeMont lost one gold medal and the
possibility of winning a second because of an allergy drug that had
passed U.S. Olympic Committee specifications but was disallowed by
the International Olympic Committee. It was that kind of Olympics,
confusing to some, fatal to others. Hart traveled back to Munich
forty-three years later to relive his utter disappointment. He
returned to the same stadium where he did earn a gold medal in the
400-meter relay. In Disqualified, his interesting life story, told
with author Dave Newhouse, sheds entirely new light on what really
happened at Munich. It includes interviews with Spitz and the
victimized American athletes and conversations with two Israelis
who escaped the terrorists. And Hart finally learned who was
responsible for his disqualifications and those of Rey Robinson,
who was in the same heat, leading to an interesting epilogue in
which these two seniors reflect on the opportunity denied them long
ago.
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