Munich 1972

Ugandan athlete John Akii-Bua wins the 400 metre hurdles at the Olympic Games in the Olympic Stadium, Munich, 1972. (Photo by Tony Duffy/Getty Images)

31st August 1972: Mark Spitz, the American world champion swimmer at the Munich Olympics, breaking the record in a time of 2mins. 0.7 secs. in the 200m. Men's Butterfly Event. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

1972: Sixteen Year old Ulrike Meyfarth of West Germany in action in the High Jump competition at the 1972 Olympic Games held in the Olympic Stadium in Munich. Meyfarth won the gold medal. Mandatory Credit: Tony Duffy/ALLSPORT

MUNICH, GERMANY: Shane Gould of Australia poses for a photo shot with her Olympic medals after the 1972 Olympic Games in Muncih, Germany. (Photo by Tony Duffy/Getty Images)

1972: Olga Korbut of the Soviet Union in action during the gymnastics competition at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. The pretty gymnast won gold on the balance beam, the floor exercises and was also a member of the winning all-round team aswell as a silver medalist on the uneven parallel bars. She captured the hearts of the world with her impish style and brilliant smile. Mandatory Credit: Allsport UK/Allsport

2nd September 1972: Young Russian gymnasts Touritcheva (second from left), Olga Korbut (centre) and the other competitors showing the medals they won at the Munich Olympics. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

12th September 1972: Britain's judo team, left to right, Brian Jacks, Dave Starbrook and Angelo Parisi, return to Britain with the medals they won competing in the Munich Olympic Games. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

2nd September 1972: 17-year-old Russian gymnast Olga Korbut in action on the asymmetric bars at the Munich Olympics. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Undated: Swimmer Shane Gould of Australia in action at the 1972 Olympics in Munch, Germany. Gould reached her Everest in swimming at exactly the right time, winning three gold medals at the Munich Olympics Games and setting world records in each. Moreover she showed the fibre to overcome the disappointment of defeat: in those Games she lost her second final, the 100 metres free style, but won the 400 metres free style the following day. Altogether, she swam twelve races in eight days. All this before her sixteenth birthday, by which time she was becoming disenchanted with the training demands the sport made to maintain her high positon. She retired less than a year later. Her career must be among the most successful and shortest in any sport for her international competition was crammed into less than three years. Mandatory Credit: Tony Duffy/Allsport

Japanese ice skater Tomoo Kurosawa arrives at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo carrying the Olympic Flame during a rehearsal for the Sapporo Winter Olympics, 11th January 1972. The last batch of torches were defective, causing the flame to die during the relay, and have had to be replaced. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)