Steve Prefontaine

The glamorous pageantry of the opening ceremonies overrode the feuds and differences that beset Munich before the Games began

At 4:45 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 26, an 18-year-old West German police cadet named Günter Zahn, a lad, it is said, chosen because of his unusually graceful running style, will carry the Olympic torch—the flaming...

The Olympics are bigger—with 9,000 athletes from more than 120 nations—and presumably better this year, reports SI's Munich-bound crew. The U.S. track and field squad, says Pat Putnam, has more youthful confidence...

From the lofty feats of the vaulters to the great thrusts of the shotputters, the U.S. Olympic track and field team appears just as impressive as ever

According to an astrologer, Steve Prefontaine (above) was supposed to come in third in the two-mile, but the horoscope was full of Taurus