The 10 Most Shocking Olympic Tragedies
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- For an event meant to bring people together, many have used the Olympics as a way to tear us apart. For this list, we’ll be looking at various tragedies and controversies that occurred during, or in the runup to, the Olympic Games. Our countdown includes Beijing Displacements, The Centennial Olympic Park Incident, The Munich Massacre, and more! Which of these stories do you find the most shocking? Let us know in the comments below!
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How was this 6 hours ago???
How was this 6 hours ago the video just released 💀💀💀💀
The USA Gymnastics Scandal
You are CANADIAN so please, don't use Fahrenheit when talking about temperature because no-one uses it!
I was surprised you didn’t mention the Luge athlete who died in the Calgary Olympics during a practice run. They even made changes to the course before the actual race.
Wasn't it Vancouver where it happened? Also his cousin is now competing in the same category at the same age.
The luge athlete was killed in Vancouver 2010. Just hours before the opening ceremonies took place.
Vancouver 2010***
@@WickedlyMe328 it was the year 90000
That was my first thought! It was in Vancouver in 2010, not Calgary.
My friend was swimming for Ecuador when the Munich attack occurred. He said that he and his fellow athletes were located rather far from that section of the Olympic village and were not fully aware of what all was going on at the time. Not sure if TV access was restricted or what. Apparently the German police had that area of the village pretty locked down, but to everyone's horror it made no difference for those Israeli athletes. Such a tragedy.
Poor Richard Jewell, they really fucked that man's life up and never really gave him an apology. May he RIP, he really is a hero.
That's why I'm glad the movie showed the bs that went into the accusations and charges against him
Thanks to Mainstream Media 🖕😮
@@welcometothemovies9157 what movie?
@@muh.arhammuharramarif4808 The movie is literally called Richard Jewell and was directed by Clint Eastwood
@@LantisSRK thanks. Will check it out
Some years back, I saw a riveting documentary about about the 1972 Olympic tragedy in Munich. Such a horrible event, especially the erroneous news reports blaring that all the hostages had been successfully rescued, when in fact they were murdered.
It’s sad the West Germany at the time want to welcome everybody all over the world for Peace ☮️. But the Black September group really ruined everything that year.
the documentary is likely" one day in September" if you want to find it again
Without forgetting the treason of the German state which sent ambulances full of soldiers....
What about the tragedy in Palestine ?
0:33 Francisco Lazaro overheats
1:15 Beijing Displacements
2:25 Nicolas Bochatay's Practice Run
3:24 Hungary & The USSR's Water Polo Match
4:50 Knud Enemark Jensen Collapses
5:31 The USA Gymnastics Scandal
6:46 The Estadio Nacional Disaster
7:44 The Tlatelolco Protest
8:52 The Centennial Olympic Park Incident
10:14 The Munich Attack
Really devastating incidents in the history of sports!
When the father launched at Nassar I was rooting for the punch. So Sad the trauma this girls had to endure for so many years.
The Karolyi's were in on the abuse as well
@@shaunstrasser1 100%
Same, it's insane how he hasn't been killed in prison yet. Like knowing what they do to people like him in prison
While that was happening in Tlateloco, the Halconez, who were a militant gorillas, were massacre in other students, who were unarmed, indiscriminately, in La Avenida Santa Maria. I was a little girl but the brutality and sanguineary these gorillas committed are still imprinted in my memory. All the events covered in your channel were sad and tragic.
I don't mean to sound insensitive, but I don't think that the water polo brawl is tragic. You should have included the fatal luge accident that took place during the 2010 Winter Olympics. *That* is a tragedy.
The guy who died in the luge accident his cousin is now competing in the same sport and at the same age. I'm actually rooting for him
Would agree with that. Was very surprised the luge athlete being killed in a training run the day before the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics wasn’t on this list.
Not that insensitive. It is fact death is much more of a tragedy than someone getting hit.
The background of the incident was far more tragic than an Olympic accident, I think this is very insensitive
Nodar Kumaritashvili was his name.
There’s a tragic accident where a young Georgian man named Nodar Kumaritashvili who passed away from luge practice run in the 2010 winter Olympic.
I wonder why that didn't make the list
@@iHeartsNostalgiaPit : But the water polo brawl did? Far as I can tell, no one died during that event. They should have included Nodar's death instead of the water polo brawl.
You can still search for the video of the accident. One of the most brutal crashes you’ll see.
Missing the death of the luger form Georgia at the 2010 games is a massive oversight on your part.
What about Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who was killed in a practice run on the day of the 2010 Opening Ceremonies?
Some of these happened before I was born. Not all though! Rest in peace those who tragically lost their lives. 🙏
The no.9 is the reason why I hate China's dark rule and decsions against not only its natives but also to the other poor countries too.
Kind of like the U.S.
@@henny6566 how so?
I wonder why they called first world country when they try their rural citizens so bad.
@@Gsta1544 This happens in the U.S. also. It's called gentrification.
There's more reasons to hate China including their systematic and constant oppression of basic human rights but God forbid you bring this shit up lest you be labled a fascist
11:04 I am infuriated by the failing of that ambush as well because it wasn’t the police’s fault. Black September reportedly used the news broadcasters who were on scene to learn where they were coming from.
The luge accident that was fatal was very tragic.
Nodar Kumaritashvili 2010 Vancouver. I remember so vividly because i did a presentation on it at school at the time.
Sad day..
Yeah it's very tragic because the accident caused talented athlete die.
Wow, the Georgian Luger that died the same day as the open ceremonies of the Vancouver winter games doesn't even get a mention?
My hometown priest in Mexico participated in the Tlatelolco protest. Sadly the government were never held responsible for the tragedy.😔
I think the Tlateloco massacre should've been #1, because the HOST government MASSACRED thousands of THEIR OWN citizens for protesting the games itself, which opened only 10 days later.
I think that deserves more notoriety, since the Atlanta and Munich tragedies were security lapses by the host countries.
Its funny how outside of Mexico they're known as the Tlatelolco "protest" and no as the Tlatelolco massacre, like they're known here.
No doubt the “Munich Massacre” is the most Tragic incident in Olympic history. Even 50 years later.
there should have been a war after that, the world should have went after the middle eastern countries that helped with that murder of people
@@redred222 Watch the Munich movie. Isreal pretty much did that.
@@BERZERKERX23 yes but they shouldnt have had too at all
@@redred222 sadly when it comes to Jews the world doesn't really care. Especially in the US and eastern Europe
What about the palestinians massacred everyday ?
Number 3 is a sad day to México, how many innocent people died that day.
I'll never in my .
whole life forget the 1972 Olympics tragedy. It was one of the most frightening things ever, beside Walter Cronkite's report on the Vietnam War on TV
John on wives computer. Cronkite's saddest moment was announcing the death of President Kennedy on 11/22/63. Ask those still alive and they will know where they were and what they were doing when the news broke.
The Munich attack actually led to the creation of the GSG9, Germany’s premier counter terrorism unit.
My father (he was 18 at the time ) heard the news over the radio about the Mexican riots he said it was on the radio all day . He also had a friend who knew a soldier who took part of the riots he remembers the bodies piling up and the blood coming out of them like a river flowing by slowly .
There's also a book about the event it's very sickening and horrifying and there was also a film. The film was very interesting though cause u don't see the riots happening you just see the family watching from there apartment so you can easily tell how gruesome and horrifying those events were .
The Munich Massacre wouldn’t has been that bad if it wasn’t for the news and the incompetence police. The news reporter literally broadcast one of the rescued plan to the terrorist; and the police literally firing show into the dark, and kills some of the hostages
Thank you, Mojo for placing the Munch Tragedy at the top of the list. It was truly awful that an event, that should unite the world, athletes were murdered in their sleep. 😥
Nice spoiler 😑
normal people are murdered everyday and the world won't come together, get real
@@ICECREAMan2991 It's not a spoiler if it's known
What about Sabra and Chatila tragedy ?
No sympathy for the apatheid occupying state and their residents
I remember when that ‘72 incident happened. I was a little girl and I didn’t know exactly what was going on but I knew it was bad. I can see this being number one. So sad. All these are.
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This shows how heartless and indifference the Olympic is to human suffering, the show must go on
Munich 72 is surely number 1.
So is the palestinian tragedy.
'The home fans literally rioted'. How else would they riot? Figuratively? Imaginably? And I say this to the world : Stop saying 'literally' when it is not necessary.
It aint that deep
I remembered the time when an Georgian luge athlete died of head injuries shortly before the 2010 winter games
That was the first thing that came to mind for me. We were watching the live broadcast on CBC when it happened. Nodar Kumaritashvili
Was too shocking to watch, the expression of his face something I will never forget!!!
Not before, it happened during Vancouver Olympics on unfinished track. That's a Canadian channel, don't expect them to mention it after embarrassing series of money laundry and safety "investigations".
@@davidklein1245 Yeah, I remember that. Shocking.
@@J0rdan912 It happened during the practice runs and not the actual luge event, which is what I think Sophia meant. And the track was finished; they just made alterations like increasing wall height at that corner and lowering the starting points, as well as adding padding to the support posts just in case someone went off-track again.
The Munich Attack was the worst incident that happened in the Olympics.
Rest In Peace, innocent athletes.
What about innocent palestinians killed everyday ?
The Munich attack is no surprise, so many innocent athletes lost their lives. Overall, it’s rather sad what was happening during the Olympics.
The sad thing was could be prevented but they don't let armed guards for start.
I have a feeling what number 1 should be before I watch this
Coincidentally I was right. Wish I wasn't. Sad sad tragedy.
@@JamesSupinski if you start talking to yourself that's the first sign of insanity
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Keep it up on your work and this video and channel
Speaking about the USA gymnastic scandal... where did go all the good teachers for youth? It can be something unrelated to this specific topic, but I know that there are many teachers and mentors that DO care about the destiny of young generations and don't use trust to use our children as an object. Watching the TV, it could seem a minority but it hasn't to be. Maybe the good care of our children, from youth to adulthood, should be acknowledged more and supported.
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Are the Olympics worth it? Athletes dedicating their lives for a sport for little to no money, brief fame, few fortunate to get endorsements, cities losing revenue, unable to financially recover for hosting the games. While the Olympic Committee receives billions just to dangle the carrot for countries to bid on hosting the games. Is it really worth it?
Depends on who you ask. The athletes absolutely think it's worth it, for the same reason football teams think the Super Bowl is worth it and golfers think the Masters is worth it. The Olympics is considered the pinnacle of the sports that participate in it, and there are some sports where there isn't much between nothing and an Olympic medal (like table tennis.) It's something to strive for. No matter what other awards you've got, having an Olympic gold medal means you're the best there is.
And to a LOT of athletes, it isn't about getting money or endorsements; it's about the thrill of participating. Most athletes who make it to the Olympics know they have zero chance of medaling, but they're happy just to be there and take part. It's just a lot of fun.
Also, smart money managers can make the Olympics profitable for their city, and several cities have done very well, Los Angeles and London being 2 examples. Obviously there have been boondoggles - The 2004 Greece games is one example - but if you study WHY those games lost money, it all comes down to money management. Cost overruns, creating complexes that are overly extravagant, and not following through on plans for venues post-Olympics are what create problems.
@@SarahB1863 first off, the Masters is only played in Augusta, Georgia where women are not allowed to participate on the course whether it's a tournament or for recreation.
2. Places like L. A. were successful because they have facilities already built for both professional and collegiate sports throughout the city. No additional money was needed to build new ones.
Sorry but how are the ones with hundreds of deaths not at the top?
Interesting video love it 🙌🤘
The irony of the Munich incident is Germany was hoping to show the world how much the country had changed since the last time they had hosted the games in 1936 under Hitler's rule.
and they failed at every step to protect the athletes they refused to have troops guarding them even after receiving in tell that there was going to be an attack, also another athlete earlier in it was attacked by a crazed fan there was almost no security, because germany could barely afford the games in the first place, there is a great documentary on the games and how bad they where manged on how the united states offered to help with security costs but they turned it down and 11 athletes where murdered and the world sat back and did nothing about i can tell you know if that happened there would be a war
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#2 ~ Unfortunately that brave Security Officer ended up dying decades before his time due to the stress placed on him by the media and the FBI when the latter seemed bound and determined in accusing him of being responsible for the bombing.
Obesity probably played a role in his death too
Forgot about the luge incident, but otherwise I agree with your top couple picks.
At the time that the media named Jewell as a suspect in the 1996 bombing, he WAS a suspect in the 1996 bombing. The media should not be blamed for accurately reporting the status of the police investigation. The problem in these cases is that the follow-up story clearing the individual doesn't get nearly as much attention.
Thanks Mojo for this scary yet interesting video.
After Tlatelolco, bodies were put in mass graves, a lot of people never found out what happened to their family members, the military actually started walking into the apartments that were around the area searching for the students, other people that was walking by were attacked too, and just days before the olympics people pay by the government were still washing the blood out of the streets.
The slap in the face for the families was that during the opening of the game, white doves were released as a sign of peace and the slogan was "Mexico for peace".
As happened in China, in LA 1984 people were displaced too, like lower classes and africanamerican.
In Atlanta before the ‘96 games, many black people were pushed out of their neighborhood.
@@brianarbenz1329 too bad for them, only to host 2 weeks event.....and later all the facilities are abandoned!!
Least the LA incident shouldn't happen again. Unless if that stadium is something else now, we are gonna use it in summer 2028
Rest in peace to all
Poor Richard Jewell, they accused him so loudly. But exonerated him so quietly. I was only 15 when it happened, but to me, it was obvious he hadn't done it.
I though the bobsleigh wreck was going to be either number two or one. I was too young to remember it, but my Mom and Dad kept mentioning it while the Winter 2022 Olympic Games were going on.
Don't forget about Vancouver sled accident while practicing witch also over shadowed as well
Talk about some of the most saddest situations
The bobsledder from Georgia anyone?
Good picks for the top 10 been reading up on the '72 killings in Munich there is one event you did skip or forgot about and and if anyone wants to check out the story go to TH-cam and put in 1904 St Louis marathon race its one of the strangest events I ever heard about and it could have killed 5 maybe 10 runners in the race (out of 34 i think were in the race at the start) check it out and see what you think
How about the Chinese atrocities?
I recall the Atlanta tragedy. What about the Russian skater that died on the rink next to his wife in 1988 I believe. I never knew about the Mexican college students killed or the poor Chinese displaced.
Sergei Grinkov was 28 when he died in his wife's arms. She was also his skate partner and they were preparing for a skating tour to take place in 1995-96. They had won gold at Lillehammer in 1994.
Just one request: when you quote temperatures/distances etc, can you please convert them to metric as well? Not everyone uses US imperial measurements in daily life.
At #5, "The USA Gymnastics Scandal", I heard about it before, it was all over the news and that should be number one
You can’t put it ahead of Munich.
Literally terrorists killing athletes because of race/religion, or a doctor who was sexually abusing the athletes 🤔
Both are heinous but its asinine to think that scandal is worst than actual terrorists holding hostages and then the hostages rescue failing miserably.
Munich, 1972. Nuff said.
The Russian Doping Scandal.
Which one?
@@KittenUndercover I know about 2019 where Russia was banned...how many more are there?
Dang this super sad rip to all
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Rest in peace Francisco Lázaro
I know my unhealthy ass would die mid race
I'm going to catch massive hell for this, but I first heard of water polo when I was 8. I thought it was cruel and wondered just how many horses drowned when they played it. I wasn't the brightest 8 year old.
Could have added as a honourable mention the death during the Vancouver olympics. Wasn’t a tragedy, but could have been acknowledged
I remember watching the standoff on TV when I was 7 ..thought the guerillas were gorilla s....I was young..... I love history
I really don’t mean to be insensitive but I’d put the Mexican protest massacre at #1. I understand that athletes, officials, and a police officer lost their lives and not to mention it was an act of terrorism at Munich, but that was just a few people compared to the hundreds in the Mexican protest. I agree with most of the list though.
Honestly I agree with you a couple of the other incidents had more deaths than #1 so to me those tragedies are worse. 😐
Yes, but they're brown so...🤔
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I'm sorry, but I must say this. The centennial olympic park incident is a tragedy of course, but la matanza de Tlatelolco is way worst. Now in 2022 my country doesn't know the exact number of deaths and a lot of people was never found (alive or death). 1968 is an open wound in Mexico's history and every October 2nd the whole country mourn the losts of all those students.
I'm not trying to minimize what happened in Atlanta, I just want to say that the Tlatelolco massacre was huge and it isn't "solve" yet
The terrorists in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany is so heartbreaking.
Your have a lot of that happening to young women in the military but not much as done.
The pronunciation of Estadio Nacional seems odd to me. Do Argentinians or Peruvians speak Castilian Spanish?
At least they gave us a good show.
Wasn't there one where in the gymnastics category where Chinas athletes were underage? Some being like 12 or 13, but they had to be 18 or older?
I'm probably wrong.
Edit: Since I had no clue the Olympics was going on, here's another one. Salt Lake City 2002, the Canadians were ripped off in figure skating because one of the judges was apparently paid off to give them a low score.
You are right, that was a scandal too. I remember my father saying that they were not even ready changing teeth.
@@estherkeizer6080 Changing teeth. Thats a good one, I got to remember that.
But yeah, I remember there was a lot of buzz around that.
Didn't have the 2010 fatal luge crash at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Robot Chicken referenced the Munich Attack in one of its episodes.
"domestic criminal Eric Rudolph" how is it you can't use the word "Terrorist"?
very dark list
The Munich Massacre is not just a Olympic tragedy but a world tragedy a Olympic of Tranquility became The Olympics of death same with Atlanta those poor people who were trying to enjoy a concert only for one to die and 100s injured because of some sickos plans that security guard is a hero may he rest in peace and may the victims of the events of 1968 Mexico City Massacre rest in peace too
Would have been nice if you had also put controversies as well as tragedies
I was at the 1996 Olympics
damn thats sad
The fistfight between Hungary and Russia isn't a tragedy - a tragedy is something that is sad. There's nothing sad about a guy being a jerk. I would recommend removing it and replacing it with the tragic death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the luger who was killed during a practice run right before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
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I was watching Janet Evans’ interview when he bomb went off
Rest In Peace
Some countries take Soccer WAY to seriously.
There was zero competition for the #1 spot.
2:25 He hit a snow cat. A great big machine with treads, and weighing as much as a car. It should have never been on the slope while he was skiing.
Wow-and after displacing their citizens in 2008- they get the Winter Olympics this year! Great going IOC!
I could be wrong, but I think Beijing won by default; i.e. they were the ONLY applicant.
@@augiegirl1 Close; there was ONE other applicant: Khazakhstan. So yeah, really no choice there.
It was absolutely awful what happened in Munich and Mexico but I personally think that far too much money is spent on the Olympics each one being bigger and better that the previous one. Look at China's Olympics, all those people thrown out of their homes for sport. Bloody disgraceful!!!!
Also of note: the Anti-Olympic riot which took place in Vancouver in 2010.
The Luge athlete who died in 2010 was Nodar Kumaritashvili.
I'm surprised Greg Louganis wasn't on here.
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Something tells me these 2022 Winter Olympics will soon be on this list.
Nope. They weren't the best ever, but they weren't bad.
... Being rivalrous is not a healthy way to be.