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In a call on Kash Patel’s phone, President Trump invited the USA’s Olympic gold medal hockey team to attend his State of the Union speech. Goalie Connor Hellebuyck played “unbelievable,” said Trump, who now has an historic opportunity to go on offense and restore American’s stolen Olympic gold. The Americans’ 2-1 overtime victory over a strong Canadian team drew comparisons to the 1980 winter Olympics at Lake Placid, when a team of US collegians defeated the mighty Soviet Union 4-3. After that “miracle on ice,” the USA took down Finland to win the gold. Imagine if officials had let the games continue until the Finns or Soviets won. That’s what happened at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
The USA fielded its youngest-ever men’s basketball team: Mike Bantom, Jim Brewer, Tom Burleson, Doug Collins, Kenny Davis, James Forbes, Tom Henderson, Bobby Jones, Dwight Jones, Kevin Joyce, Tom McMillen and Ed Ratleff. The American collegians faced a more experienced Soviet team, for all practical purposes a professional squad.
In the closing seconds with the USA behind 49-48, Illinois State’s Doug Collins picked off a Soviet pass and drove for a layup. Soviet player Zurab Sakandelidze rammed Collins into the basket stand, leaving the American motionless on the floor. After some tense moments Collins got up, stepped to the line, and sank both to put the USA ahead 50-49. Three seconds remained, and the Soviets failed to score. The buzzer sounded and the Americans celebrated their victory.
Renato William Jones, a friend of the Soviet Union and Secretary General of FIBA, the international basketball organization, came out of the stands and ordered the officials to put three seconds back on the clock. Jones had no authority to make the demand but the Olympic officials put time back on the clock three times. The third time the Soviets scored a basket and the Olympic officials gave them the gold medal. The Americans decided not to show up for the silver because they had won the gold fair and square. Jones didn’t think so. “The Americans have to learn how to lose,” he famously proclaimed, “even when they think they are right.”
Gutless American officials passed up every chance for a put-back, even as the International Olympic Committee forced other athletes to return gold medals. For example, in 2008 Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter, teammate of Usain Bolt, had violated anti-doping rules. Therefore, the entire Jamaican 4×100-meter relay team would have to return their gold medals, which now belong to the team from Trinidad.
In the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, American Jim Thorpe won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon. Those medals were taken away when it emerged that Thorpe had played minor league baseball, not even an Olympic sport. In July of 2022 on the 110th anniversary of the Jim Thorpe’s 1912 wins, and nearly 70 years after his death, the International Olympic Committee restored Thorpe’s gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon. That opens the way for America’s 1972 Olympic winners, except for Dwight Jones and Jim Forbes still around at this writing.
President Trump should demand that, as a condition of holding the games in Los Angeles, the Americans get the gold medals stolen from them in 1972. Call it “Operation Gold Put-back,” a winner for the players and nation in the run-up to the election on November 7, 2028. In the meantime, the people might recall another legacy of the Munich games.
Islamic terrorists of the PLO’s Black September faction murdered Israeli team members Amitzur Shapira, Kehat Shorr, Andre Spitzer, Moshe Weinberg, Yossef Gutfreund, Yakov Springer, David Berger, Ze’ev Friedman, Eliezer Halfin, Yossef Romano and Mark Slavin. Mastermind of the operation was Muhammad Yusuf al-Najjar. The terrorist’s grandson is now running for Congress in California, for the third time.
Ammar “Campa-Najjar,” as the Democrat bills himself, claims that his father, Muhammad’s son Yasser al-Najjar, migrated to the USA on a student visa, married a Mexican woman named Abigail, and gave birth to Ammar in San Diego. The family then moved to Gaza, then returned to San Diego. The people have cause to wonder.
Back in 2003, Linda Gradstein of National Public Radio interviewed Yasser al-Najjar at his office in Gaza, where he served with the Palestinian Authority. Yasser was married with four children but his wife and children were not named.
The Munichian candidate, touted by Rolling Stone as a “rockstar” Democrat, lost to Republicans Duncan Hunter in 2018 and Darrell Issa in 2020. In 2022 the Democrat lost the mayor’s race in Chula Vista and the next year joined the U.S. Navy. The rockstar Democrat now comes billed as “U.S. Navy officer, Palestinian-Mexican American, Ammar Campa-Najjar,” a veteran of the Obama administration, and a teacher of government at Georgetown University.
While the June 2 primary awaits, the people might request documentation of Yasser’s move to San Diego, and the Najjar family’s round trip to Gaza. Those who believe his story might put in a bid on San Diego’s Coronado Bridge.
What happens in the Olympics doesn’t stay in the Olympics, and that can also be a good thing.
President Trump said he would bring along the women’s gold medal hockey team, which also defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime, “otherwise I would probably be impeached.”
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