Better Than Gold - West, Gary P
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The crowning achievement of any American athlete would be to become an Olympian. More often than not it can define one's life. To play basketball on the world's largest stage had become a dream come true, but in the big picture of life's progression, it was no more important than when he became a Wayne County Cardinal. Basketball became insignificant, however, when a group of terrorist slipped into Munich's Olympic Village and murdered 11 Israeli athletes, thus changing the Olympic world (1972). Suddenly the game Kenny had played all of his life didn't seem as important as it once did. Kenny…mehr

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The crowning achievement of any American athlete would be to become an Olympian. More often than not it can define one's life. To play basketball on the world's largest stage had become a dream come true, but in the big picture of life's progression, it was no more important than when he became a Wayne County Cardinal. Basketball became insignificant, however, when a group of terrorist slipped into Munich's Olympic Village and murdered 11 Israeli athletes, thus changing the Olympic world (1972). Suddenly the game Kenny had played all of his life didn't seem as important as it once did. Kenny got to come home... they didn't. The powers to be, and rightly so, declared that anything less than continuing the Games would be giving into the terrorists. With all eyes watching, the Americans played the Russians in what became the most controversial ending to a basketball game in history. This game helped to define who Kenny became, and he didn't score a point. Those 12 silver medals Kenny and his teammates refused to accept are today locked in a room in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland.