More+Pre+links

Go to this link to watch Pre's 5000-meter run in the 1972 Olympics. **USE THIS LINK ONLY AS A RESOURCE AFTER WE HAVE WATCHED //FIRE ON THE TRACK// IN CLASS.** [|1972 Munich Olympics 5000 meters] Here is the link to the article **on the Munich Massacre** written by //Sports Illustrated//'s Alexander Wolff on the 30th anniversary of the event. It's called **"When the Terror Began"** and it is **__REQUIRED READING__**. __There is a quiz on it__. **PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST READ ALL THE "SIDEBAR" PARTS AS WELL**. (The "Flashbacks" are not required reading; read them if you want to. They're very interesting and moving, but if you don't have time in your life now, read them in the future. You won't regret it.) [] Superb followup //Sports Illustrated// article by Mr. Wolff in 2012, the 40th anniversary of the Munich Massacre. [|"In Reconstructing Munich Massacre, I learned history is ever-present"]


 * Kenny Moore,** a world-class marathoner in his own right who finished fourth in the 1972 Munich Olympics behind American winner Frank Shorter, became America's greatest track writer. He visited Literature of Sport in person in 2006. He and Frank Shorter were Pre's two closest friends and the last two men to see Pre alive before he had his fatal car accident. Here is an article on Pre by Kenny from 2004: [|"Heaven Sent]

2012 article on Frank Shorter and Munich.[|"Frank Shorter transformed sorrow of Munich into 1972 Olympic gold"]