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The Games may never be safe again, but they must go on

The Observer, 28 July 1996

I just froze and felt sick. I knew exactly what it was all about. The immediate memory was Munich. I wasn't

there, but for those who were it must have brought back a nightmare.

There may have been a difference from Atlanta, but the end result was the same : an unspeakable act of

barbarity. In 1972, of course, the Games were selectively targeted ; a by-product of an Arab-Israeli conflict.

We don't know yet what was behind this, but ultimately there's no difference in the overall horror.

You can't switch on your TV without recognising that Centennial Park has become a symbol for the city's

celebration of the Games. It's where the partying goes on, so whoever planted the bomb knew they were

likely to inflict massive injury.

It wasn't an economic target. The bombers didn't pick an empty broadcast centre or go for the rapid transport

system. They actually picked a place where they knew that the people there would have had absolutely no

interest or involvement with their cause.

Of course, there are many who will say that sport is not worth the spilling of anyone's blood, and that these

Olympics should have been abandoned there and then. I do not agree. They went ahead in Munich and it is

right that they do so now, because you cannot concede to terrorism or blackmail.

If you do, then you admit these people have the ability to derail something which, for all its imperfections,

has a massive ability to unify.

We all know the Games are no longer just about sport. They are about commercialism, politics, ego, many

things - but essentially they are about youth.

Only the other day, I went to Gatwick to see off 18 youngsters from all over the United Kingdom who were

going to attend an Olympic youth camp in Atlanta.

They were going not to compete, but to enjoy themselves as part of the Olympic movement. These are the

sort of young people who could have ended up as the victims of a misguided political message.

We tend to forget the Olympics have often been used as a political platform, whether for Nazism in 1936 or

the African boycott in 1976.

Now this is the second occasion when they have spilled over into ghastly tragedy. As a human being, a

politician and a former Olympian I am saddened and appalled.

It would be hard for something as large as the Olympics to avoid being a target for

cranks

, extremists and

terrorists, but if you decided to do away with it because of such threats, you would also have to scrap the

World Cup and other major global gatherings.

These people are not respecters of ethos, philosophy or tradition. To them nothing is sacred. They just

cynically target something they know is going to give them wall-to-wall publicity for their acts of horror.

Sebastian Coe won gold medals in the 1500 metres in the Moscow and Los Angeles Olympics. He is now

Tory MP for Falmouth and Camborne.

A

crank

: a mad person.

A - Global Comprehension

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