Title: Expressing support for the International Olympic Committee to recognize with a minute of silence at every future Olympics Opening Ceremony those who lost their lives at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Sports and Recreation

Summary:
This resolution urges the International Olympic Committee to recognize with a minute of silence at every future Olympics Opening Ceremony those who lost their lives at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1292 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1292

Expressing support for the International Olympic Committee to recognize 
  with a minute of silence at every future Olympics Opening Ceremony 
 those who lost their lives at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 28, 2022

  Mr. Owens (for himself, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Zeldin, Mr. Torres of New 
  York, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Gottheimer, Ms. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Curtis, Ms. 
  Stefanik, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, and Mr. Langevin) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                                Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing support for the International Olympic Committee to recognize 
  with a minute of silence at every future Olympics Opening Ceremony 
 those who lost their lives at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and for other 
                               purposes.

Whereas, in September 1972, in the midst of the Munich Olympic games, members of 
        Black September, a terrorist group with ties to the Palestine Liberation 
        Organization's Fatah movement, murdered 11 members of the Israeli 
        Olympic Team, including athletes, coaches, and referees, 9 of whom had 
        been taken as hostages;
Whereas the 11 victims were David Berger, Ze'ev Friedman, Yoseff Gutfreund, 
        Moshe Weinberg, Yoseff Romano, Mark Slavin, Eliezer Halfin, Yakov 
        Springer, Andre Spitzer, Amitzur Shapira, and Kehat Shorr;
Whereas Anton Fliegerbauer, a West German police officer, was also killed in the 
        terrorist attack;
Whereas the international community was deeply affected by the brutal murders at 
        the 1972 Munich Olympics and memorials have been placed around the 
        world, including in Manchester, United Kingdom, Tel Aviv, Israel, and 
        Munich, Germany;
Whereas the Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Rockland County, New York, has 
        placed a sculpture honoring the eleven Israelis who were killed at the 
        1972 Munich Olympics;
Whereas the Opening Ceremonies of every JCC Maccabi Games since 1995 has 
        included a memorial tribute to the murdered Israeli athletes, among the 
        first victims of organized terrorism in our time;
Whereas in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, during the 2016 Olympic games, the 
        International Olympic Committee inaugurated the Place of Mourning to 
        honor the memory of 15 people killed during Olympic Games;
Whereas the Place of Mourning commemorates the 11 Israeli victims, the German 
        policeman who was killed in the failed rescue attempt in Munich, two 
        victims of a bomb attack at the 1996 Atlanta Games, and Georgian luger 
        Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died in an accident at the 2010 Winter 
        Olympics in Vancouver; and
Whereas the 2020 Olympic games, held from July 23, 2021, to August 8, 2021, in 
        Tokyo, Japan, commemorated the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 
        Munich Olympics: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) should observe a minute of silence to commemorate the 
        50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack 
        and remember those who lost their lives;
            (2) urges the International Olympic Committee to take the 
        opportunity afforded by the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich 
        Olympics terrorist attack to remind the world that the Olympics 
        were established to send a message of hope and peace through 
        sport and athletic competition; and
            (3) urges the International Olympic Committee to recognize 
        with a minute of silence at every future Olympics Opening 
        Ceremony, beginning with the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games, 
        those who lost their lives at the 1972 Munich Olympics in an 
        effort to reject and repudiate terrorism and antisemitism as 
        antithetical to the Olympic goal of peaceful competition.
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