But the primary legacy of Munich has been the heavy security deployed at the games ever since, especially at the athletes' villages. Security was loose. None of the guards wore guns. Security at the Atlanta Games has been the heaviest yet. The Olympic Village is surrounded by a 7-foot fence, patrolled by armed soldiers and accessible only with electronically coded security passes.
Security is also strict at all the athletic venues.
The lone exception among major Olympic destinations was Centennial Olympic Park, where the bomb exploded early Saturday. They picked the spot noticeable to the public. Ron O'Brien, the U.S. diving coach in both Munich and Atlanta, stressed the differences between the two tragedies. Munich was much more an invasion of the village, an invasion of the athletes. Journal Sentinel Inc. All rights reserved.