1972 Munich Olympics

The 20th Summer Olympics held in Munich, West Germany (now Germany ) from August 26 to September 11, 1972 .

It was the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany , and to date the last Olympics to be held in Germany .

The second Summer Olympics held in Germany (although it was in West Germany in 1972 due to division). The only Olympics held in Germany were the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Olympics and the 1936 Berlin Olympics held in 1936 under the Nazis, and they were the first Winter-Summer Olympics held after the Nazis.[4] Germany tried to show democracy and a new image through this competition. In particular, because the previous event, the 1936 Berlin Olympics , had a dark history of becoming a propaganda site for Hitler's Nazi regime, we were even more conscious of holding a proper Olympics. The official motto of the competition is "Happy Games", and the emblem "Bright Sun" was also part of this effort.

A mascot named Waldi, inspired by a dachshund, was adopted for the first time at a Summer Olympics.[5]

The Olympic Oath of referees was administered for the first time. Handball and archery were revived as official sports, and badminton and water skiing were selected as demonstration sports.

The star of the competition at the time was Mark Spitz of the United States , who won seven gold medals in swimming.[6] He will set a record by winning a total of 9 medals at the Olympics alone. This record was the world's highest record until Michael Phelps broke it 36 ​​years later when he won 8 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics . In gymnastics, 16-year-old Olga Korbut won four gold medals and was nicknamed 'Minsk Sparrow'.

However, a tragic event occurred that made all of the above explanations lose their luster: the famous Munich Olympic disaster . For this reason, it is the first Olympics where the flag has been raised.

It was the Olympics when the full-scale confrontation between North and South Korea began . North Korea , which officially participated in the Olympics due to the name issue, won its first gold medal in the shooting and small-bore shooting event, with Ri Ho-jun setting a new world record. A North Korean defector who is the son-in-law of Kang Seong-san , a former Prime Minister of the Jeongmu -won Gold Medal, as soon as he competed. According to Kang Myeong-do, upon returning to Korea after the Olympics, he became a military bodyguard directly under Kim Jong-il, who enjoys shooting as a hobby. His acceptance speech caused a stir by saying, "I shot with the feeling of aiming at the heart of my enemy."[8]

In its first competition, North Korea won one gold medal, one silver medal, and three bronze medals, ranking 22nd overall, overwhelming South Korea, which only won one silver medal and ranked 33rd overall. Fortunately, this silver medal also went to a Korean-Korean resident in Japan who learned judo in Japan. Since it was Oh Seung-rip 's, the players raised purely in Korea did not win any medals.

Kim Woo-gil, who won the silver medal in the boxing light flyweight , won 4-1 in the second round against Lee Seok-un in Korea . Kim Kwang -hyung, a wrestler who won the bronze medal, won the bronze medal by beating the Turkish player in the game. The silver medal is empty at the 63kg male judo winning the bronze medal, because the original silver medal winner Bakbain Boya is the first athlete in the doping test a few days after the game. Because it was hit.

In women's volleyball, South Korea and North Korea played for the bronze medal in the 3rd and 4th place match. The result was a 3-0 win for North Korea. They were defeated after being robbed by North Korea's main gun, Kim Jeung-bok . The Korean team, who could not believe their defeat, insisted that Kim Jeung-bok was male and requested a sex test, but this was not accepted. If you look at the South Korean newspaper article, there is only a record of a re-examination upon request and no record afterward, but seeing as North Korea's medal was not revoked, it is clear that it was not accepted. In short, it was a place of mental breakdown where I couldn't admit that I had lost (...). Anyway, with this argument, he was able to avoid responsibility for the defeat, and he won a bronze medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, so it is an event that is now remembered as if something like that had happened before.

Anyway, the first medal of the Winter Olympics[9] , Let’s make North Korea win the gold medal first at the Summer Olympics.[10] The Korean government has begun to foster elite sports in earnest . In particular, in the shooting category, Park Jong -gyu , then president of the Korea Shooting Association and head of the Blue House Security Department, who was stimulated by North Korea's first gold medal, pledged to then-President Park Chung-hee that something like this would never happen again, and built a shooting range in Taereung with the cooperation of large corporations. This is Taereung Shooting Range, Korea’s first international standard shooting range . Since then, South Korea has continued to outperform North Korea in the medal rankings at major international sports competitions, including the Olympics. And this became the beginning of today's elite sports in Korea.

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