“Baffled” Bob Costas To Call Own Minute of Silence During Olympic Broadcast for Slain Israeli Team

By: Malkah Fleisher

Published: July 22nd, 2012

One of the best known sportscasters in America may soon make history by defying the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decree that it would not honor the memory of the murdered 1972 Israeli Olympic team, and conducting an on-air memorial of his own.

Bob Costas, famed NBC sportscaster and regular frontline broadcaster of the Olympic games, told The Hollywood Reporter that he would not stand behind the IOC’s “baffling” decision to deny Israel’s request for a moment of silence to acknowledge the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Palestinian terrorists 40 years ago at the 1972 games in Munich, Germany, and that he would take it upon himself to highlight the injustice during his broadcast of the London games opening ceremonies on July 27.

If officials of the Olympics continue to refuse to honor the victims with a moment of silence, Costas says "I intend to note that the IOC denied the request," he tells THR. "Many people find that denial more than puzzling but insensitive.  [So] Here's a minute of silence right now."
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