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Disqualified, Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the voices of the most tragic Olympics, Eddie Hart with Dave Newhouse ; foreword by Dr. Cornel West

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Disqualified, Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the voices of the most tragic Olympics, Eddie Hart with Dave Newhouse ; foreword by Dr. Cornel West

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 199) and index

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individual biography

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Disqualified

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bibliography

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966715517

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Eddie Hart with Dave Newhouse ; foreword by Dr. Cornel West

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Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the voices of the most tragic Olympics

Summary

"Having previously tied the world record, Eddie Hart was a strong favorite to win the 100-meter dash at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. Then the inexplicable happened: he was disqualified after arriving seconds late for a quarterfinal heat. Ten years of training to become the 'World's fastest human,' the title attached to an Olympic 100-meter champion, was lost in a heartbeat. But who was to blame? Hart's disappointment, though excruciating, was just one of many subplots to the most tragic of Olympic Games, at which eight Arab terrorists assassinated eleven Israeli athletes and coaches as the world watched in horror. Five terrorists were killed, but three escaped to their homeland as heroes and were never brought to trial. Swimmer Mark Spitz won seven gold medals but was rushed out of Germany afterward because he was Jewish. Other American athletes, besides Hart, seemed jinxed in Munich. The USA men's basketball team thought it had earned the gold medal, but the Russians received it instead through an unprecedented technicality. Bob Seagren, the defending pole vault champion, was barred from using his poles and forced to compete with unfamiliar poles. And swimmer Rick DeMont lost one gold medal and the possibility of winning a second because of an allergy drug that had passed U.S. Olympic Committee specifications but was disallowed by the International Olympic Committee. It was that kind of Olympics, confusing to some, fatal to others. Hart traveled back to Munich forty-three years later to relive his utter disappointment. He returned to the same stadium where he did earn a gold medal in the 400-meter relay. In Disqualified, his interesting life story, told with author Dave Newhouse, sheds entirely new light on what really happened at Munich"--Publisher's website

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Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the voices of the most tragic Olympics

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