SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Games of 1956 - ✔✔Melbourne
**Roger Bannister: (white) of England broke the 4 minute mile barrier
✔✔Black female stars:
1. Wilma Rudolph
2. Rafer Johnson - ✔✔1. **1st African American woman to win 3 gold medals
2. **had the honor of carrying the American flag during the opening ceremonies in
Rome
✔✔Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) - ✔✔**formed by sociologist Harry
Edwards
**-group fully endorsed a boycott of the 1968 Olympics
-the reaction to this proposed boycott was loud and diverse
-black athletes were by no means totally supportive
✔✔Games of 1968 - ✔✔*Mexico City (Summer)
-under Brundage, the IOC suspends **Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos (2 black
athletes) from participating in the games b/c they demonstrated for racial equality (they
stood with fists raised and heads down on podium)
**-both received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award (2008)
**Bob Beamon's new world record in the long jump by 2 ft+ (29.5 in.)
-sex chromatin tests for females required for 1st time
*Grenoble, France (Winter)
-French skier Jean-Claude Killy wins 3 gold medals in alpine skiing
✔✔Games of 1972 - ✔✔*Munich (Summer)
**-Arab terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes and coaches
-Brundage- "the games must go on"
**-*Mark Spitz: American swimmer, won 7 medals
-Lord Killanin becomes IOC chair
-was not especially memorable for African American Olympians
, -Rhodesia expelled upon demand of other African countries
*Sapporo, Japan (Winter)
-dispute over amatuerism vs. professionalism comes to a head
✔✔1979 - ✔✔USSR takes over Afghanistan, US threatens a worldwide boycott of
Olympics in Moscow (1980)
✔✔Juan Antonia Samaranch - ✔✔Spanish pres. of the IOC, 1980-1990
-1st full time pres, made it a salaried position
-great benefactor of women's sports
✔✔Carl Lewis - ✔✔athletic hero of 1984 (Los Angeles Games)
**-repeats Jesse Owen's records; 1st athlete since Owens to win 4 track & field gold
medals in 1 Olympiad
-got more pre-olympic publicity than any other athlete had gotten before
✔✔Games of 1992 - ✔✔**Barcelona (Summer)
-unlimited participation
-professional basketball players allowed
**-premiere of the American basketball "Dream Team" of professional players
-no boycotts
-baseball for the 1st year
*Albertville, France (Winter)
-games spread out through region, only 18 of 57 games in Albertville
✔✔**Sport part. increased dramatically for women since 1970s due in part by these
factors: - ✔✔***EQUAL RIGHTS LEGISLATION:
**-Title IX of the Educational Amendments in 1972
*GLOBAL WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT:
*-females enhanced as human beings: intellectual and physical abilities
*HEALTH AND FITNESS MOVEMENT:
-traditional ideas of femininity: thin and sexually attractive to men
**-emphasis on development of physical strength and competence
*INCREASES PUBLICITY GIVEN TO FEMALE SPORTS
**-media images helps girls envision possibilities for developing athletic skills and that
sports are human activities, not only male