The West German Olympic Organizing Committee had encouraged an open and friendly atmosphere in the Olympic Village, to help erase memories of the militaristic image of wartime Germany and, specifically, of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, which had been exploited by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler for propaganda purposes.

The team was housed in a relatively isolated part of the Olympic Village, on the ground floor of a small building close to a gate, which Lalkin felt made his team particularly vulnerable to an outside assault.

On the evening of 4 September, the Israeli athletes enjoyed a night out, watching a performance of Fiddler on the Roof and dining with the play's star, Israeli actor Shmuel Rodensky, before returning to the Olympic Village.

At 4: 30 a. m. local time on 5 September, as the athletes slept, eight tracksuit-clad members of Black September carrying duffel bags loaded with AKM assault rifles, Tokarev pistols, and grenades scaled a two-meter chain-link fence with the assistance of unsuspecting athletes who were also sneaking into the Olympic Village.

The two female members of Israel's Olympic team, sprinter and hurdler Esther Shahamorov and swimmer Shlomit Nir, were housed in a separate part of the Olympic Village.

According to author Simon Reeve, Afif, Nazzal and one of their confederates had all worked in various capacities in the Olympic Village, and had spent a couple of weeks scouting out their potential target.

A member of the Uruguayan Olympic delegation, which shared housing with the Israelis, claims that he found Nazzal actually inside 31 Connollystraße less than 24 hours before the attack, but since he was recognized as a worker in the Village, nothing was thought of it at the time.

A few minutes later, Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Walter Tröger, the mayor of the Olympic Village, were briefly allowed into the apartments to speak with the hostages.

The Guardian reported that " some of his trial times were almost unbelievable ," and Nurmi went on to train at the Olympic Village in Los Angeles despite his injury.

During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the university hosted the Olympic Village, a housing complex for the Olympic and Paralympic athletes, as well as the opening and closing ceremonies.

No new venues were built for the games, and athletes were housed in existing accommodation instead of an Olympic Village.

Building an Olympic Village was deemed too expensive ; athletes were therefore housed in existing accommodation.

A designated Olympic Village for the athletes did not appear until the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Its lush 200-hectare Yunnan Garden campus was the Youth Olympic Village of the world's first 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in 2010.

* An Olympic Village was built for the first time, in Baldwin Hills, occupied by the male athletes.

On September 5, 1972, the Palestinian terrorist movement Black September infiltrated the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, to kidnap 11 Israeli athletes, killing two in the Olympic Village in the initial assault on the athletes ' rooms.

Five newer buildings named Glacier, Olympus, Norquay, Brewster, and Castle Halls were built prior to the 1988 Winter Olympics as the athletes ’ Olympic Village.

* These were the first Games to feature an Olympic Village.

The athletes Olympic Village will be restructured post the games as the new East Village development, providing 3, 500 homes, half affordable and half private.

Image: BBC New Media Village04. jpg | The BBC Media Village, on the site of the Olympic Stadium ( visible in the Background of BBC 1 prime time show " The One Show ").

A demonstration tournament was also held during the 1932 Winter Olympic Games between four teams from Canada and four teams from the United States, with Canada winning 12 games to 4 .< ref >

There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles.

On 26 June 1932, Nurmi started his first marathon at the Olympic trials.

In the Olympic Games after 1920, instead of requiring all competitors to compete against each other regardless of size, weight classes were introduced and, by the 1932 Olympic Games, weightlifting was divided into five weight divisions.

Men's four man bobsleigh appeared in the first ever Winter Olympic Games in 1924, and men's two man bobsleigh event was added in 1932.

Racewalking was briefly dropped from the Olympic programme in 1928, but the men's 50 kilometres race walk has been held at every Olympic Games but one since 1932.

* The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was known in 1932 as Olympic Stadium.

The United States Olympic Committee measured the costs and revenue of the 1928 Games in preparation for the 1932 Summer Olympics.

* Paavo Nurmi, Finnish, Regarded as the greatest track and field athlete of all time and winner of nine Olympic gold medals ( despite missing 1932 games in a professional controversy over travel expenses ), setting world records at distances between 1500 m and 20 km, and one of the Flying Finns

In 1932, the Norwegian Olympic Team of Birger Rund, Hans Beck, and Kaare Wahlberg ( gold, silver, and bronze medalists ) came to Ogden Dunes to try the tower.

Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run | bobsled run from the 1932 Olympics.

The term is described by Jigoro Kano, the founder of Judo, in a speech at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games: " Randori, meaning " free exercise ", is practiced under conditions of actual contest.

The 1932 Winter Olympics, officially known as the III Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1932 in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

In the 1932 Olympics, Bob Tisdall famously won the Olympic Gold medal in the 400 metre hurdles in World Record time, but was not credited with the record due to knocking over a hurdle.

The diversity of American athletes in the Olympic Games in the early 20th centuries was an important avenue for the country to redefine a national culture amid a massive influx of immigrants, as well as American Indians ( represented by Jim Thorpe in 1912 ) and blacks ( represented by Jesse Owens in 1932 ).

Australia, Bulgaria, Greece, Liechtenstein, Spain, and Turkey all made their Winter Olympic debut in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia all returned to the Games after having missed the 1932 Winter Olympics.

Women's initially competed in the 80 metres hurdles event, which entered the Olympic programme in 1932.

The first Olympic men's javelin throw contest was held in 1908 and a women's competition was introduced in 1932.

* Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, winner of the Olympic gold medal in modern pentathlon ( 1932 ).

This event, which kicked off the week long Adirondack Almost Springfest celebration, took place at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York, home of the 1932 Winter Olympics and 1980 Winter Olympics, and at nearby Whiteface.

Los Angeles hosted the Olympic sailing competitions for the second time, having previously done so during the 1932 Summer Olympics.