Sporting Witness - Shaul Ladany - the Great Survivor

Shaul Ladany - the Great Survivor

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Shaul Ladany is a long-distance Israeli race-walker who set world records that stand to this day. But, even more remarkably, he survived a childhood in the Belsen concentration camp and then the terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics in 1972.

Shaul Ladany talks to Will Yates.

Picture: Shaul Ladany in action at the 1972 Olympics (from his personal archive)

Published on Saturday, 16th April 2016.

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