KIN 2501 CORE MAIN EXAMINATION QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔Avery Brundage (1952-1972) - ✔✔-strongly believed in the maintenance of strict
amateur rules
-held idealistic view about separation of sports and politics
-president off the IOC
✔✔Arab terrorists killed Israeli athletes - ✔✔1968 Olympics(Mexico City)
1972 Olympics (Munich)
✔✔Wilma Rudolph - ✔✔first African American woman to win three Olympic gold medals
in track and field in 1960
✔✔1960 Olympic Games - ✔✔-Black women made greater strides than any other group
during the four years between Olympiads
-interracial contradictions
-Muhammed Ali won gold in heavyweight champion division
✔✔Rafer Johnson- won silver medal in Decathalon in Melbourne - ✔✔- had the honor
of carrying the American flag during the opening ceremony in Rome
-set a new Olympic record
- awarded with honor of lighting the torch above the coliseum in 1984 Olympics
✔✔The Olympic project for human rights - ✔✔- formed by Sociologist Harry Edwards
- group fully endorsed a boycott of the 1968 Olympics
✔✔Ralph Boston - ✔✔"If we decide on some kind of protest, I'd be less than a man not
to participate. I'd be letting myself down , my family, my race,"
✔✔Jesse Owens with boycott - ✔✔"I am not in accord with those who advocate a
boycott of the Olympic Games...athletics help youngsters who do not have the money to
go to colleges of their choice..."
✔✔Smith and Carlos - ✔✔Awarded the Arthur ashe courage award
-Now have a statue of them at San Jose University
✔✔1968 Olympic games highlights - ✔✔-Mexico City
- Bob Beamon's new record in long jump
- Victory stand demonstration
✔✔Victory stand demonstration by - ✔✔Tommie Smith (raised right) and John Carlos
(left) with clothing items that represent black pride, poverty and symbolism to those who
had been lynched during national anthem
, ✔✔In 1968 - ✔✔Bob Beamon performed most superlative accomplishments in the
history of recorded sports
- broke record by more than 2 feet
✔✔1972 Olympic games highlights - ✔✔- in Munich
- student activism had declined while political terrorism increased
-remembered for the massacre of 11 Israeli Olympians by their their Palestinian
kidnappers
- remembered for the 7 gold medals in swimming by Mark Spitz
-Avery Brundage resigned
✔✔Fan favorite Russian gymnast (1972) - ✔✔Olga Korbut
✔✔1976 Olympic games (Montreal) - ✔✔- 50th anniversary of 1936 games in Berlin
- spent over $100 million on security
✔✔Stars of 1976 Olympic games - ✔✔-Edwin Moses (400 Meter hurdles)
-Bruce Jenner won the decathlon
-Nadia Comancia - Romanian gymnast
-Sugar ray Leonard - boxing
Americans returned to dominance in men's basketball (got a bogus lost in Munich)
✔✔1980 games (Moscow) - ✔✔-forced to withdraw from the Moscow Olympics by
president jimmy carter due to soviet union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979
-Athletes were political pawns
-Japan, West Germany and Canada also withdrew as a measure of protest
✔✔Nadia Comaneci - ✔✔-1st gymnast to have a perfect 10
-7 perfect 10's
- youngest all-around Olympic gymnast(14 y/o)
-In 1989, she defected with a group of other Romanians. She was guided out of
Romania
✔✔Commercialism and the Games - ✔✔-1984 Los Angeles Games
-1st Corporate Olympiad in history-"Spartan Olympics"
-Very Successful Monetarily (showed profit for 1st time)
-Permanent sponsorships
-Television revenues-$300 million
-Team sponsorship
✔✔Highlights of 1984 Olympics - ✔✔- Los Angeles
- Soviet union and its allies boycotted in retaliation (8 weeks before the games)
-Carl Lewis was unquestionably the star of this Olympiad
ANSWERS FIRM A+
✔✔Avery Brundage (1952-1972) - ✔✔-strongly believed in the maintenance of strict
amateur rules
-held idealistic view about separation of sports and politics
-president off the IOC
✔✔Arab terrorists killed Israeli athletes - ✔✔1968 Olympics(Mexico City)
1972 Olympics (Munich)
✔✔Wilma Rudolph - ✔✔first African American woman to win three Olympic gold medals
in track and field in 1960
✔✔1960 Olympic Games - ✔✔-Black women made greater strides than any other group
during the four years between Olympiads
-interracial contradictions
-Muhammed Ali won gold in heavyweight champion division
✔✔Rafer Johnson- won silver medal in Decathalon in Melbourne - ✔✔- had the honor
of carrying the American flag during the opening ceremony in Rome
-set a new Olympic record
- awarded with honor of lighting the torch above the coliseum in 1984 Olympics
✔✔The Olympic project for human rights - ✔✔- formed by Sociologist Harry Edwards
- group fully endorsed a boycott of the 1968 Olympics
✔✔Ralph Boston - ✔✔"If we decide on some kind of protest, I'd be less than a man not
to participate. I'd be letting myself down , my family, my race,"
✔✔Jesse Owens with boycott - ✔✔"I am not in accord with those who advocate a
boycott of the Olympic Games...athletics help youngsters who do not have the money to
go to colleges of their choice..."
✔✔Smith and Carlos - ✔✔Awarded the Arthur ashe courage award
-Now have a statue of them at San Jose University
✔✔1968 Olympic games highlights - ✔✔-Mexico City
- Bob Beamon's new record in long jump
- Victory stand demonstration
✔✔Victory stand demonstration by - ✔✔Tommie Smith (raised right) and John Carlos
(left) with clothing items that represent black pride, poverty and symbolism to those who
had been lynched during national anthem
, ✔✔In 1968 - ✔✔Bob Beamon performed most superlative accomplishments in the
history of recorded sports
- broke record by more than 2 feet
✔✔1972 Olympic games highlights - ✔✔- in Munich
- student activism had declined while political terrorism increased
-remembered for the massacre of 11 Israeli Olympians by their their Palestinian
kidnappers
- remembered for the 7 gold medals in swimming by Mark Spitz
-Avery Brundage resigned
✔✔Fan favorite Russian gymnast (1972) - ✔✔Olga Korbut
✔✔1976 Olympic games (Montreal) - ✔✔- 50th anniversary of 1936 games in Berlin
- spent over $100 million on security
✔✔Stars of 1976 Olympic games - ✔✔-Edwin Moses (400 Meter hurdles)
-Bruce Jenner won the decathlon
-Nadia Comancia - Romanian gymnast
-Sugar ray Leonard - boxing
Americans returned to dominance in men's basketball (got a bogus lost in Munich)
✔✔1980 games (Moscow) - ✔✔-forced to withdraw from the Moscow Olympics by
president jimmy carter due to soviet union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979
-Athletes were political pawns
-Japan, West Germany and Canada also withdrew as a measure of protest
✔✔Nadia Comaneci - ✔✔-1st gymnast to have a perfect 10
-7 perfect 10's
- youngest all-around Olympic gymnast(14 y/o)
-In 1989, she defected with a group of other Romanians. She was guided out of
Romania
✔✔Commercialism and the Games - ✔✔-1984 Los Angeles Games
-1st Corporate Olympiad in history-"Spartan Olympics"
-Very Successful Monetarily (showed profit for 1st time)
-Permanent sponsorships
-Television revenues-$300 million
-Team sponsorship
✔✔Highlights of 1984 Olympics - ✔✔- Los Angeles
- Soviet union and its allies boycotted in retaliation (8 weeks before the games)
-Carl Lewis was unquestionably the star of this Olympiad
