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...Nobody, bar the legendary RTÉ reporter, Tommie Gorman, was, closer to the Irish commissioners. He wined, dined and lunched ferociously....
...Da 5 Bloods opens with a slick montage of archive, the clenched fist salutes of 1968 Olympic athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos accompanied by Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues”....
...US athlete Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico, Boris Becker’s 1985 triumph at Wimbledon, or Diego Maradona’s performance at the World Cup a year later....
...Back then Tommie Smith and John Carlos were inspired by the Black Power movement, reflecting the anger of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X and the urgency of Martin Luther King Jr....
...Rather than shipping in foreign talent, the teams are almost exclusively Norwegian, young and new, old and established....
...(I have gazed upon it a number of times now and still can’t begin to picture young Ashton when I look away, only Gigi and her spear.)...
...The young Bach befriended fencers from communist countries, and would bring them blouses for their girlfriends in exchange for Russian matryoshka dolls....
...“I was born to make that statement,” he says of the salute he and Tommie Smith gave after receiving their medals for the 200m sprint....
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