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A powerful and emotional new episode of ESPN E60 will look back 50 years to one of the darkest moments in sports history – the Munich Massacre, when Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israeli sportsmen at the 1972 Summer Olympics. E60 will tell the story of one Israeli athlete, now 86, who survived, just as he had survived World War II and the Holocaust when he was a child.
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00:07You did not need one lucky event to survive.
00:12The German armies moved against their pact partner.
00:15To survive you needed...
00:17We are now at war with Germany.
00:19...a series of lucky events.
00:21Our worst fears have been realized tonight.
00:24Fortunately for me...
00:27...I had them.
00:30I never had such a trauma in my life.
00:35To be in pain motivated me...
00:39...for achievements.
00:44Shoal Adaini has won 30 Israeli national championships...
00:47...plus competed in the 1968 and 72 Olympics.
00:52The German Olympic Committee has gone out of its way...
00:55...to show that Munich 1972 will be nothing like Berlin 1936.
00:59They have dubbed this Olympiad the Serene Olympics.
01:04Terrorists armed with submachine guns...
01:06...went to the headquarters of the Israeli team.
01:09They've been holding 14 hostage since then.
01:11They're all gone.
01:15I have almost no words to express the feeling of all of us.
01:25You had to fight for your life...
01:27...everywhere you've been.
01:33I keep the sorrow to my inside.
01:44I believe and I never retreat.
01:46I think that's why we leave.
01:53...on the Centre Chancellor 18.
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