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===1960 Rome===
===1960 Rome===
See David Maraniss, ''Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World'' (2007)
IOC began the practice of posting list of illegal drugs that are totally banned for use by Olympic athletes, and using drug tests to enforce theban.<ref>See David Maraniss, ''Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World'' (2007)</ref>
===1964 Tokyo===
===1964 Tokyo===
===1972 Munich===
===1972 Munich===
West Germany sponsored the 1972 Olympics as an affirmation of its peaceful reintegration into the family of nations. The world community was horrified when Palestinian terrorists captured and murdered a team of Israeli athletes on worldwide televsion.
West Germany sponsored the 1972 Olympics as an affirmation of its peaceful reintegration into the family of nations. The world community was horrified when Palestinian terrorists captured a team of Israeli athletes on global television; eleven Israeli hostages were mudered; fibve of the eight Arab terrorists were killed in a blaze of gunfire with police.
===1980 Moscow===
===1980 Moscow===