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In 1931, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) selected the German capital city Berlin as the host city of the 1936 Summer Olympics. However, following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the plans for the Olympic Games became entangled with the politics of the Nazi regime.
In his book "Rome 1960," author David Maraniss explores the controversies of the first televised summer Olympics. With issues such as the equal rights battle for women and people of color,...
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Mao Zedong's People's Republic withdrew from the Olympics altogether that year in an ideological snit over the refusal of Brundage and his IOC cohorts to ban Taiwan, which called itself the...
Competing under protest, Taiwan wins its first Olympic medal during the 1960 games in Rome. AP Photo. Taiwan protests because the IOC forces it to compete under the name Formosa, instead of the...
Apr 19, 2024 · Wilma Rudolph at the Rome 1960 Olympic Games. Date: August 25, 1960 - September 11, 1960. Location: Italy. Rome 1960 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Rome that took place August 25–September 11, 1960. The Rome Games were the 14th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games.
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Jul 29, 2021 · In the 1960s, some 36 countries embraced a new counter-Olympics: GANEFO, the Games of the New Emerging Forces. GANEFO formed to challenge the International Olympic Committee, “a tool of the ...
Jul 1, 2008 · The 1960 Rome Olympics were the first commercially televised games, saw the first doping scandal and the first commercial endorsement. David Maraniss, author of "Rome 1960: The Olympics...
