Episode 3349: TOKYO OLYMPICS FOCUSING ON COVID - BUT WHAT ABOUT TERRORISTS?

There have been three fatal terror attacks on the Olympic Games 

since 1970, starting with the Munich Olympics. Is Tokyo at risk? 

With the specter of Covid19 overshadowing the Olympics, Tokyo 

called for a state of emergency and enacted precautions from 

banning spectators to manufacturing anti-sex beds. But, little is 

known as to what precautions they’ve taken to ’ban terrorists’. 

The Munich Massacre, at the 1972 Olympics, dispelled the image

of innocence that had surrounded the Games until then. Here,

Palestinian terrorists swooped into the Athletes' Village and killed 

Israeli athletes and coaches. Tokyo2020 has made headlines 

regarding terrorists, as well, but not (at least so far) in regard to 

violence. There is a call for Iranian athletes to be banned by the 

International Olympics Committee because of their abuse of 

athletes - including with executions, and their allowing an actual 

terrorist to participate and win!

You will also hear about competing theories as to whether the 

Olympics is a more compelling target for terrorists or a lesser one, 

and what makes it so. This year, the IOC finally - after 49 years of 

requests from the Munich victims’ families - agreed to honor them 

in the Opening Ceremony - to the displeasure of terrorists - 

making Tokyo2020 a particularly attractive target.