David Wilkie, an Olympic swimmer, who was fresh off a silver medal 3 days earlier, was walking with Barry Prime and Neil Dexter (2 of his swimming partners) when something strange happened. They turned around to see two men in tracksuits climbing over the fence. They waved to them, thinking they were Olympic athletes but wondering why they were climbing the perimeter fence. The reason other Olympic events have such heavy security is all due to one event, the 1972 Munich Germany Olympic Massacre. In 1972 annual Olympics were held in Munich, Germany. A group of Palestinian terrorists known as Black September took 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and 1 German police officer hostage and eventually killed them all. 2 of the five terrorists took advantage
