Word: montreal
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...designed to transcend a perfect platform to emphasize the disunity of the world order. What has happened to the 1984 Games happened to the 1980 games. And, if we remember a little further back, we recall that in 1976, 37 Black African nations did not send athletes to Montreal because the International Olympic Committee extended an invitation to New Zealand, which had allowed its rugby team to tour South Africa. In 1972 in Munich, 11 Israeli athletes were killed by terrorists. In 1968 America was shocked to see the Games, or rather the awards platform, used by U.S. runners Tommie...
...once and for all. Such arguments strike an increasingly responsive chord, indeed, the last Games to be left unscathed by the non-athletic tug of war between rival states took place in 1968. Since then, we've seen the massacre of 11 Israelis in Munich, the African boycott of Montreal, the U.S. no-show in Moscow, and now, the big nyet from Chernenko and Co. Nor do prospects for the future look good. The 1988 Games were awarded to South Korea, thereby presenting Big Brother to the North with an ideal opportunity to wreak havoc upon its estranged friends...
Cincinnati 6, Montreal...
...Montreal 4, Houston...
...Montreal 3, Philadelphia...