Murdered Israeli athletes remembered... but not by the IOC

In a ceremony by Russian Jewry and the Israeli Olympic team, the members of the 1972 Olympic team who were murdered in Munich were remembered in Sochi. Unfortunately, once again, the International Olympic Committee was not there.

Chief Russian Rabbi Berel Lazar said the memorial was meant to connect and embolden the Jewish diaspora.

"So
when you think of the history of Israeli athletes