Mexico City Olympics

Question 1

What did certain countries threatened to do and why?

Answer 1

What: Boycott the games
Why: If South Africa were allowed to attend (the apartheid)

Question 2

What happened on the podium of the 200m medal ceremony?

Answer 2

African American athletes Tommy Smith and John Carlos protested about the lack of civil rights in the USA by doing the ‘Black Power Salute’

Question 3

What did the athletes wear for the protest? (2 things)

Answer 3

1. One glove on the raised hand to symbolise black power

2. Black shocks and no shoes to represent poverty