September 10th was the 50th anniversary of Frank Shorter winning the gold medal in the marathon at the Munich Olympics. Five days earlier, 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by a faction of the PLO and killed. Frank was awakened by the pre-dawn gun fire just 150 yards away in the Olympic village.
In a brief interview for Letsrun.com, I spoke to Frank about his remembrances of the “Munich Massacre” and its impact on his marathon performance.
[Interesting fact - Frank was a student at the University of Florida Law School when he won the gold medal in the marathon.]
I hope you can check it out:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2022/09/on-50th-anniversary-of-marathon-gold-frank-shorter-reflects-on-impact-of-munich-massacre
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