modern olympics athletic achievement & political statements
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Modern Olympics
Athletic Achievement &
Political Statements
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1968 Mexico City• Tommie Smith and
John Carlos• All black athletes
were urged to boycott the upcoming games
• Their action resulted in both men being expelled from the Olympics
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1972 USA Basketball• Doug Collins was
fouled with three seconds left and made two free throws to make the score 50-49
• Referees ordered the clock reset twice, allowing the Soviets to win 51-50
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Mark Spitz• Spitz won 7 gold
medals & broke 7 world records
• 100m butterfly• 200m butterfly• 100m free-style• 200m free-style• 400m free-style• 800m free-style• 400m relay
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1976 USA Boxing• USA Boxing won
five gold medals for the first time since Helsinki in 1952
• Leo Randolph, Howard Davis, Michael & Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard were on the team
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1980 Speed Skating• In nine days, Eric
Heiden won five individual gold medals in a single Olympics
• Dave Kindred of the Washington Post called him “an alchemist on skates, the first man ever to turn ice into gold”
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1980 “Miracle on Ice”• 4-3 victory over
Russia actually came in the 1980 Olympic semifinals
• The U.S. would go on to defeat Finland in the Gold Medal game 4-2
• Victory over the Soviet Union gave the United States a symbol of hope
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Olympic Protests
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Greatest All-Around Athlete
• Despite pulled hamstrings and asthma, Jackie Joyner-Kersee still triumphed
• In 1988's Olympic Games she took the gold in both the heptathlon and long jump
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1996 Atlanta• Kerri Strug had felt a
pop in her ankle on her first vault and could barely walk
• “Kerri listen to me…you can do it,” said USA coach Bela Karolyi
• She suffered two torn ankle ligaments
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1994 Lillehammer• On January 6th,
Shane Stant attacked Nancy Kerrigan at a Detroit ice rink
• Tonya Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy, was fined $100,000 and received a lifetime ban from skating
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1998 Nagano• Picabo Street took
gold in the Nagano Super-G by a mere hundredth of a second
• After a leg injury and two years of rehabilitation, Street returned to compete in 2002 in Salt Lake City before retiring
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Dara Torres• On January 6th,
Shane Stant attacked Nancy Kerrigan at a Detroit ice rink
• Tonya Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy, was fined $100,000 and received a lifetime ban from skating
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Michael Phelps• Michael Phelps has
won 16 Olympic medals: six gold and two bronze at Athens in 2004, and eight gold at Beijing in 2008
• Won a total of fifty-four career medals thus far in major international competition
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Olympic Ceremonies