Hints and tips:
...Nobody, bar the legendary RTÉ reporter, Tommie Gorman, was, closer to the Irish commissioners. He wined, dined and lunched ferociously....
...Should CBS side with his accusers, allowing him to receive any of it would make a sickening story even harder to stomach, says Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson....
...In 1910, black boxing champ Jack Johnson beat Jim Jeffries, whom the press had dubbed the Great White Hope. His victory sparked race riots across America....
...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....
...At the Mexico Olympics in 1968, American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos bowed their heads on the podium and each raised a single, gloved fist in a Black Power salute....
...After the 200-metre sprint at the 1968 Olympics, the American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the “Black Power” salute from the medals’ podium....
...“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....
...Many of them had broader interests, none more so than the American sprinter John Carlos, who with his compatriot Tommie Smith gave the “Black Power” salute in Mexico City in 1968....
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