Challenging How Germany Remembers the 1972 Olympics Attack
With tensions running high over the war in Gaza, a new opera and a movie are looking back on the moment when Israeli athletes ...
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Passages: Iris Cummings Critchell, Oldest Survivor of 1936 Olympics, Dies at 104
Passages: Iris Cummings Critchell, Oldest Survivor of 1936 Olympics, Dies at 104 Iris Cummings Critchell, a swimmer who was ...
Iris Cummings Critchell, 104, Dies; ’36 Olympic Swimmer Turned Aviator
The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot ...
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Iris Cummings Critchell, swimmer who competed in Hitler’s 1936 Berlin Olympics
swam in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and went on to serve as a US Women’s Air Service Pilot during the Second World War. Iris Cummings was 15 when, with two national titles for the women’s 200 ...
Olympics-Battle for Powerful IOC Presidency Enters Final Stretch
When the IOC's 100-plus members, who include billionaires, global captains of industry, federation chiefs and royalty, go to ...
Iris Cummings Critchell, last living Olympian from 1936 Berlin Games and aviation pioneer, dies at 104
Iris Cummings Critchell, an aviation pioneer who was believed to be the last living Olympian from the 1936 Berlin Games, died last Friday at age 104. Her death was confirmed by the IOC and by Harvey ...
Rare gold medal from 1904 Olympics sells for $545,371 at auction
An auction firm announced on January 17 that a gold medal from the first Olympics held in the US was sold at auction for over ...