A minute is too long for the IOC

I am a little spooked by the fact that the Olympic Games start on Tisha B'Av this year. And I am righteously angered that the Olympic community didn't think that a single minute should be wasted on remembering the Israeli athletes who were murdered in Munich in 1972.
But I guess it's too much to expect the English to acquiesce to this request from the Israelis/Jews with their petitions. It might annoy the Arabs, and heavens, the Brits wouldn't want to do that. The Brits have always been careful to suck up to, I mean, get along with Arabs. You could say that the Balfour Declaration of 1917 was a rare little spark of philo-semitism which took place when everyone's attention was on the horrors of World War 1, and then from after WW1 the British Mandate did whatever it could to rectify that error. Ah yes, T E Lawrence had just looooved those flowing robes and the Romance of the East. And it would have been all camels swaying in the pitiless desert and the mystery of the Orient and all that but then the Arabs went and found oil. And everything changed for the worse as far as The Jews were concerned. Balfour Shmalfour. League of Nations, meh. Then the British took a leader of a tribe of goatherders and gave him what was supposed to be part of the Jewish Homeland, Transjordan, and Voila! King Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was born. And since he was a king, the British bowed to him. I'm not making any of this up. I could go on and on about the British in Mandatory Palestine and what total bastards they were, but I won't. When I stood outside Marks and Spencer's in London a few years ago and saw how many Arabs were passing by, I remember thinking that the Brits had it coming. So do the French, for their colonial policies in the Maghreb. But somehow it's always the Jews who pay the price.
But I digress.
I love the Olympics. I love watching the swimming and gymnastics and running and basically whatever they serve up on TV. (Not sure about synchronized swimming though.) All elite sport is just awe-inspiring. All that effort for years and years, all coming down to split seconds and millimeters sometimes. (I love the Tour de France more, though, but that's for another post.)
But why do these people have to be such bloody Jew-haters? From Avery Brundage to Juan Antonio Samaranch, well maybe he wasn't so bad, but certainly no philo-Semite. Jacques Rogge isn't shaping up too well either. So Olympics, yay! But the IOC- boo! One lousy minute of silence to recognize and honor the memory of the 11 murdered athletes. It would have been fitting, especially on Tisha B'Av.