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1972OLYMPIC GAMES MUNIC

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The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972, the sporting nature of which was largely overshadowed by the Munich massacre in which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches, a West German police officer, and five Black September militants were killed.

The 1972 Summer Olympics were the second Summer Olympics to be held in Germany, after the 1936 Games in Berlin, which had taken place under the Nazi regime. Mindful of the connection, the West German Government was eager to take the opportunity of the Munich Olympics to present a new, democratic and optimistic Germany to the world, as shown by the Games' official motto, "Die Heiteren Spiele", or "the Happy Games."^{[citation needed]} The logo of the Games was a blue solar logo (the "Bright Sun") by Otl Aicher, the designer and director of the visual conception commission.^[1] The Olympic mascot, the dachshund "Waldi", was the first officially named Olympic mascot. The Olympic Fanfare^[2] was composed by Herbert Rehbein, a companion of Bert Kaempfert.

The Olympic Park (Olympiapark) is based on Frei Otto's plans and after the Games became a Munich landmark. The competition sites, designed by architect Günther Behnisch, included the Olympic swimming hall, the Olympics Hall (Olympiahalle, a multipurpose facility) and the Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion), and an Olympic village very close to the park. The design of the stadium was considered revolutionary, with sweeping canopies of acrylic glass stabilized by metal ropes, used on such a large scale for the first time.

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Cycling MUNCHEN 72

The cycling competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of two road cycling events and five track cycling events, all for men only.

Cycling at the Games of the XX Olympiad
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Venues	Grünwald Bundesautobahn 96 Radstadion
Date	29 August – 4 September
Competitors	359 from 54 nations

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Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Medal summary

Road cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual road race	Hennie Kuiper  Netherlands	Clyde Sefton  Australia	no medal awarded [2]
Team time trial	Soviet Union (URS) Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov Boris Shukov	Poland (POL) Ryszard Szurkowski Edward Barcik Lucjan Lis Stanisław Szozda	no medal awarded [3]

Track cycling

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual pursuit	Knut Knudsen  Norway	Xaver Kurmann  Switzerland	Hans Lutz  West Germany
Team pursuit	West Germany (FRG) Günther Schumacher Jürgen Colombo Günter Haritz Udo Hempel	East Germany (GDR) Uwe Unterwalder Thomas Huschke Heinz Richter Herbert Richter	Great Britain (GBR) William Moore Michael Bennett Ian Hallam Ronald Keeble
Sprint	Daniel Morelon  France	John Nicholson  Australia	Omar Pkhakadze  Soviet Union
Tandem	Vladimir Semenets and Igor Tselovalnykov  Soviet Union	Jürgen Geschke and Werner Otto  East Germany	Andrzej Bek and Benedykt Kocot  Poland
Time trial	Niels Fredborg  Denmark	Danny Clark  Australia	Jürgen Schütze  East Germany