• Rogge again rules out minute of silence for Israelis: IOC President Jacques Rogge won’t budge: There will be no minute’s silence for the Israeli victims of the 1972 Munich massacre at the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. Rogge rejected the latest calls Saturday for a special observance to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Palestinian gunmen at the Munich Games. “We feel that the opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident,” Rogge said.
— From staff and wire reports
