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...The Black Power salute given by John Carlos and Tommie Smith from the victory podium at the 1968 Mexico Olympics had a much greater effect than if they had boycotted the games....
...Evans won his 400m race two days after teammates Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists on the victory podium for the 200m, in a salute to the Black Power movement that became one of the most iconic...
...But protests remain forbidden on the field of play, in particular on medal podiums where one of the most famous athlete protests of all time — the raised fists of US sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos...
...Celebrity activism Athlete activism has existed in the US for decades, ignited by the influence of Muhammad Ali, the heavyweight boxer, and sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos in the 1960s....
...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”....
...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....
...The Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth has installed aluminium cut-out sculptures of American civil rights activists Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, Ruby Bridges and Tommie Smith, the gold-medallist who...
...In light of the “take a knee protests”, the Atlantic goes back to into the past — to former Olympic sprinter Tommie Smith — to explain the resurgence of activism in sports....
...But it was 1968 that saw the most iconic athletic protest in modern US history when American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, inspired by the Black Panther movement, raised their fists during the...
...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....
...Mr Paul then went on to name — co-opting them to the cause — previous luminaries of sport who had some emancipatory role: “Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, Kareem...
...From the propaganda-laden 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany to the Black Power salute of Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Mexico City games in 1968 and protests against Russian policy at the Sochi Winter...
...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....
...When the African-Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos came first and third respectively in the 200m final, they decided to use the victory ceremony as a forum for protest....
...There have been protests (US athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos giving their black power salutes in Mexico City in 1968), terrorist outrages (the killing of Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972), the US-led...
...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....
...The Black Power salutes by US sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the Mexico City Olympic Games in 1968 gobbled up all the headlines....
...After the 200m sprint at the 1968 Olympics, the American runners, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gave the Black Power salute from the medals podium....
...Sport’s vast global audience allows athletes to stage effective protests, such as Tommie Smith’s black power salute in 1968. It can also make them vulnerable, as in Munich four years later....
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