Are there any fatalities at the Olympics?

There have been five fatalities directly related to the Olympic Games in history:

1. At the 5th Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912, a marathon runner died suddenly during the competition. The cause of death was the extremely hot weather during the competition;

Second, it was the fatal incident at the 1960 Rome Olympics. During the cycling race, Danish athlete Janssen died suddenly. At first, he thought it was caused by the hot weather. An autopsy later proved that it was the result of taking drugs. Janssen's death aroused the shock and attention of the General Assembly, and at the same time prompted the International Olympic Committee to begin to pay attention to the issue of anti-doping;

3. On August 26, 1972, the 20th Olympic Games was held in the former Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). ) was held in Munich. The joy and peace of the event could not resolve the deep-rooted ethnic conflicts. In the early morning of September 5, 8 heavily armed Palestinian terrorists from the "Black September" group broke into the Israeli delegation and took 9 Israeli athletes and 2 coaches hostage. .

In the gun battle, although the terrorists were killed, all the hostages were also killed, resulting in the "Munich Massacre" that shocked the world;

4. The Olympic Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in the United States bombing. The explosion occurred at around 1:15 a.m. on July 27 during the Olympic Games. At that time, the Olympic Park, which had just opened for a week, was holding an all-night open-air concert. At least 50,000 spectators gathered in the park to listen to the band's performance.

The explosion directly killed a 44-year-old woman and injured more than 110 people, six of whom were police officers on duty. There was also a Turkish photojournalist who was in the park at the time and died of a heart attack because he was rushing to the scene of the incident to cover;

5. In the 2004 Athens Olympics, Greece, a Danish sailing athlete, 23 Holm, 20, hit and killed a pedestrian on the sidewalk. The car accident occurred at around 21:00 on the evening of August 15. Holm, his teammate Klaus Olsen and their coach (non-Olympic certified coach) Thomas Jakobson were involved in a serious traffic accident. A 30-year-old Jamaican tour guide died in the accident.