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The heartbreaking way in which they lost last season's Champions League final has helped Bayern Munich steel themselves for this campaign, according to manager Jupp Heynckes.

It was about more than the controversy at the men's basketball finals — the 1972 Olympics in Munich were the site of unimaginable turmoil.

Does Leo Messi really need to add to his goal tally to catch Gerd Muller's annual record? Uli Hesse investigates.

Sept. 5, 1972: On this day 40 years ago came one of the darkest moments in sports history, when Palestinian terrorists kidnapped and later killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. Jeremy Schaap tells the harrowing story....

I'm often in Munich, and I ride the U-bahn to what was once the Olympic Village every time. I walk and I watch and I sit for a while in front of Connollystrasse 31. I'm never sure why.

We examine the aftermath of the controversial finish from USA vs. Russia in the 1972 Olympics 40 years later.

The 1972 gold-medal game.

The widow of an Israeli athlete slain during the 1972 Munich Olympics denounced the IOC during a memorial Monday to honor the dead, shouting "Shame on you!" for failing to offer a moment of silence during the opening ceremony for the London Games.

Top-ranked Yi Siling of China captured the first gold medal of the London Olympics, winning the women's 10-meter air rifle Saturday.

A spokesman for Israel's culture and sports minister says the official will stage a protest during the opening ceremony to decry a decision by Olympic organizers not to mark the killing of Israelis at the 1972 Munich Games.

Forty years after his Munich milestone, U.S. runner Dave Wottle celebrates his gold medal, his wedding anniversary and all the happy memories that go with it. Even his lucky golf cap.

The widows of two Israeli Olympians killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics are urging spectators to stage a silent protest during Friday's opening ceremony for the London Games.

NBC Sports anchor Bob Costas says he plans his own on-air commemoration this week of Israelis killed in Munich 40 years ago despite the refusal of Olympic authorities to do so during Friday's opening ceremony for the London Game.

Iranian athletes will compete against Israelis at the London Olympics, according to the country's chef de mission.

IOC President Jacques Rogge paid tribute Monday to the 11 Israeli athletes and coaches killed in Munich 40 years ago, leading a solemn minute of silence in the athletes village.

Israel's prime minister said Sunday that his country is on alert for plots to kill more of its citizens overseas, after speculation that last week's deadly bombing of a tour bus in Bulgaria was a rehearsal for a spectacular attack on Israel's Olympics tea