Olympic Games
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- Created on: 08-06-14 15:20
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- Olympics
- Berlin 1936
- Adolf Hitler
- Aryan Race was superior
- Jesse Owen was a black athlete who won 4 gold medals and 1 against a german in the long jump who helped him
- Hitler refused to put the gold medal on his neck and left th stadium
- POLITICAL
- Mexico City 1968
- Discrimination of blacks in America
- Tommie Smith & John Carlos
- They each had bare feet and wore a black glove on the podium in the medal ceremony. Black Power Salute.
- They did this to bring attention to the conditions of blacks in America, the clenched fist shows unity and strength.
- They were expelled from the games and were stripped of their medals
- POLITICAL
- Munich 1972
- Palestinian terrorists broke into the olympic village
- Israeli athletes were taken hostage
- 11 athletes were taken hostage and 2 were killed
- They took them hostage because they wanted 236 prisoners released from Israeli and German prisons
- 2 terrorists and a policemen were killed in the rescue attempt
- POLITICAL
- Montreal 1976
- The country was in debt of $1.5 Billion
- It took them 30 years to pay off the debt
- 28 Black African countries boycotted the games because the IOC refused to ban New Zealand whose rugby team had toured South Africa
- South Africa was banned because of it's apartheid policy
- Apartheid is a policy of separation of groups especially because of race or colour
- POLITICAL
- Moscow 1980
- The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979
- The United States and 51 other countries boycotted the games
- POLITICAL
- Los Angeles 1984
- The Soviet Union and 14 other countries boycotted the games
- Their reason to boycott was concern over safety but the real reason was in retaliation to the US boycott
- This was the first Olympics to be commercialised and make a profit
- They made $225 million in profit
- FINANCIAL
- Berlin 1936
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