Olympics History
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- Created on: 30-09-14 10:51
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- Olympic History
- 1936 BERLIN, GERMANY
- Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals
- In the American team there was 10 Africans between them they won 7 golds, 3 silvers, and 3 bronze.
- Hitler refused to place gold medal around Owens neck because he was black and Hitler saw them as inferior to him
- 1956 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
- two boycotts pulled out because of political issues
- first to be staged in the southern hemisphere as well as outside Europe and N America
- 1984 LA, USA
- In 1980 when Moscow hosted games USA boycotted because of the Soviet presence in Afghanistan
- The Russian boycott in 1984 along with most of the other eastern bloc countries was in retaliation to US I n 1980.
- 1972 MUNICH, GERMANY
- On morning of September 5th 8 terrorists from Palestinian terrorist group "Black September" took 11 Israeli athletes and staff hostage, in the end the hostages were killed
- Palestinians took them hostage because they felt Israelis had taken their land
- called the "Happy Games" because after the 1936 Olympics they wanted to make Germany a better place
- The massacre led to German federal government to re-examine its anti-terrorism policies
- 1986 MEXICO, AMERICA
- Tommie smith & John Carlos (USA) finished 1st & 3rd in finals of 200m race
- When on the podium their national anthem came on, they lowered their heads & raised opposite fists to each other with a black glove on to make a point against treatment of blacks in the USA
- They were later expelled from the Olympics & had their medals stripped
- 1936 BERLIN, GERMANY
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