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July 7, 2008, 11:37 AM PDT / Source: TODAY. In his book "Rome 1960," author David Maraniss explores the controversies of the first televised summer Olympics. With issues such as the equal rights ...
The Olympic Games is a major international multi-sport event.During its history, both the Summer and Winter Games have been a subject of scandals and controversies, including the use of performance enhancing drugs.
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The Olympic flame burns above a statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in Moscow. AP Photo. During the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, U.S. President Jimmy Carter starts a ...
Jul 23, 2021 · There has been a long-standing tradition of Black athletes in particular using their positions to draw attention to social justice issues. We can go back to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where Tommie Smith and John Carlos decided that they were going to raise their fists in the air on the podium in a protest to racial and social injustices.
Sep 4, 2010 · On September 1, 1960, the "darkest day in United States track and field history," the high jump was the scene for "the supreme upset of the Olympic Games" wrote Arthur Daley of The New York Times ...
Jul 26, 2008 · The drug story that broke in Rome and changed everything came on the first day of competition. A Danish cyclist named Knud Enemark Jensen went off with his three teammates that morning in the 100 ...
Long before athletes had been selected and construction finished, the Beijing Olympic Games became embroiled in political controversy. People all over the world have focused on the event to express their displeasure with China's human rights record and its policies in Tibet. While these are the issues of 2008, University of Wisconsin historian ...
