Olympics
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- Created on: 07-02-21 10:43
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- Olympics
- Mexico City
- 1968
- Black power movement
- Apartheid regime
- A range of policies to legalise racial segregation
- Tommie Smith and John Carlos
- Used 200m medal ceremony to protest
- Black gloves and socks and no shoes
- Moscow
- 1980
- Boycott lead the USA
- Supported by Britain
- Margaret Thatcher proposed the boycott
- Boycott came from a Soviet invasion on Afghanistan
- Only 6000 of the expected 10000 attended
- Berlin
- 1936
- Third Reich ideology
- Used as a stage for political propaganda
- Hitler wanted to showcase his 'superior' race
- Aryan race
- Jesse Owens
- Beat Lutz Lang
- Won 4 gold medals
- Broke 11 records
- Los Angeles
- 1984
- Boycott lead by the Soviet Union
- Soviet Union convinced 14 nations to boycott the Olympics
- Blamed the lack of security and safety of their athletes
- Accused the USA of using the games for political purposes
- Many saw it as a ***-for-tat due the USA boycott of their games
- Munich
- 1972
- Palestinian terrorism
- Terrorists entered Olympic village the day before the games
- Took 11 hostages from the Israeli Olympic team
- Demanded the release of 234 hostages in Israel
- Known as The Black September group
- Deaths: all hostages, 5 terrorists
- Games were delayed by just a day
- Mexico City
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