HONG KONG team official Ronnie Wong Man-chiu's mind raced back 24 years to Munich as soon as he heard on the television that tragedy had struck the Atlanta Olympics.
Mr Wong, then 20 and a swimmer with the Hong Kong team, was in the team room when Arab terrorists stormed the Munich Olympic village and killed 11 members of the Israeli team.
Five German terrorists and one German policeman were also killed.
The Hong Kong team was staying in a room above the Israeli team and Mr Wong remembers being woken and told there were gunmen in the building.
'It was actually quite dramatic then. Myself, a fencer and a judo player were forced to climb on to the roof of the quarters in trying to escape,' said Mr Wong, now a senior official with the Hong Kong National Olympic Committee.
'In trying to escape, we came face-to-face with the terrorists. They were after the Israelis.' A weapon pointed at them, they spoke to the terrorists and told them they were from Hong Kong and said they wanted to go. The terrorists let them go.