Sport in Munich games were played at the stadium during the World Cup of 2006: The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, in what was then West Germany, from August 26 to September 11, 1972. The Games were largely overshadowed by what has come to be known as the Munich massacre. On September 5 a group of eight Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Black September organization broke into the Olympic Village and took eleven Israeli athletes, coaches and officials hostage in their apartments. Two of the hostages who resisted
Munich U-Bahn S1 to Freising/Airport. From here the line runs east to "Moosacher St.-Martins-Platz" and "Olympia-Einkaufszentrum", where a change to the U1 is possible. After passing through "Oberwiesenfeld station", the U1 reaches its original northern terminus at "Olympiazentrum". From 1972 until 2010, this station was the end of the original Olympic line. When Munich was awarded the Olympic Summer Games 1972 in 1965, the U-Bahn network concept (which was adopted only one year earlier) had to be revised to speed up the construction of a connection to the Olympic venues at Olympic grounds. The Olympic connector (now U3) was redesigned as a