The 1968 Summer Olympics (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad (Spanish: Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 (Spanish: México 1968), were an international multi-sport evt held from 12 to 27 October 1968 in Mexico City, Mexico. These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America and the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country. They were also the first Games to use an all-weather (smooth) track for track and field evts instead of the traditional cinder track, as well as the first example of the Olympics exclusively using electronic timekeeping equipmt.
The 1968 Games were the third to be held in the last quarter of the year, after the 1956 Games in Melbourne and the 1964 Games in Tokyo. The 1968 Mexican Studt Movemt was crushed days prior, hce the Games were correlated to the governmt's repression.
On 18 October 1963, at the 60th IOC Session in Bad-Bad, West Germany, Mexico City finished ahead of bids from Detroit, Buos Aires and Lyon to host the Games.
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The 1968 torch relay recreated the route tak by Christopher Columbus to the New World, journeying from Greece through Italy and Spain to San Salvador Island, Bahamas, and th on to Mexico.
Adolfo López Mateos, Presidt of Mexico from 1958 to 1964 and first chairman of the Organization Committee of the 1968 Summer Olympics
After being banned from participating in 1964, South Africa - under its new leader John Vorster - had made diplomatic overtures to improve relations with neighboring countries and internationally, suggesting legal changes to allow South Africa to compete with an integrated, multiracial team internationally. The nominal obstacle behind South Africa's exclusion thus removed, the country was thus provisionally invited to the Games, on the understanding that all segregation and discrimination in sport would be eliminated by the 1972 Games. However, African countries and African American athletes promised to boycott the Games if South Africa was prest, and Eastern Bloc countries threated to do likewise. In April 1968 the IOC conceded that it would be most unwise for South Africa to participate.
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Responding to growing social unrest and protests, the governmt of Mexico had increased economic and political suppression, against labor unions in particular, in the decade building up to the Olympics. A series of protest marches in the city in August gathered significant attdance, with an estimated 500, 000 taking part on 27 August. Presidt Gustavo Díaz Ordaz ordered the police occupation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in September, but protests continued. Using the promince brought by the Olympics, studts gathered in Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco to call for greater civil and democratic rights and showed disdain for the Olympics with slogans such as ¡No queremos olimpiadas, queremos revolución! (We don't want Olympics, we want revolution!).
T days before the start of the Olympics, the governmt ordered the gathering in Plaza de las Tres Culturas to be brok up. Some 5000 soldiers and 200 tankettes surrounded the plaza. Hundreds of protesters and civilians were killed and over 1000 were arrested. At the time, the evt was portrayed in the national media as the military suppression of a violt studt uprising, but later analysis indicates that the gathering was peaceful prior to the army's advance.
Gold medalist Tommie Smith (cter) and bronze medalist John Carlos (right) showing the raised fist on the podium after the 200 m race
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On 16 October 1968, African American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the gold and bronze medalists in the m's 200-meter race, took their places on the podium for the medal ceremony wearing human rights badges and black socks without shoes, lowered their heads and each defiantly raised a black-gloved fist as the Star Spangled Banner was played, in solidarity with the Black Freedom Movemt in the United States. Both were members of the Olympic Project for Human Rights. International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidt Avery Brundage deemed it to be a domestic political statemt unfit for the apolitical, international forum the Olympic Games were intded to be. In response to their actions, he ordered Smith and Carlos suspded from the US team and banned from the Olympic Village. Wh the US Olympic Committee refused, Brundage threated to ban the tire US track team. This threat led to the expulsion of the two athletes from the Games.
Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who came second in the 200 m race, also wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge during the medal ceremony. Norman was the one who suggested that Carlos and Smith wear one glove each. His actions resulted in him being ostracized by Australian media
And a reprimand by his country's Olympic authorities. He was not st to the 1972 games, despite several times making the qualifying time,
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Wh Australia hosted the 2000 Summer Olympics, he had no part in the Oping Ceremony, though the significance of that is also debated.
In another notable incidt in the gymnastics competition, while standing on the medal podium after the balance beam evt final, in which Natalia Kuchinskaya of the Soviet Union had controversially tak the gold, Czechoslovakian gymnast Věra Čáslavská quietly turned her head down and away during the playing of the Soviet national anthem. The action was Čáslavská's silt protest against the rect Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Her protest was repeated wh she accepted her medal for her floor exercise routine wh the judges changed the preliminary scores of the Soviet Larisa Petrik to allow her to tie with Čáslavská for the gold. While Čáslavská's countrym supported her actions and her outspok opposition to Soviet control (she had publicly signed and supported Ludvik Vaculik's Two Thousand Words manifesto), the new regime responded by banning her from both sporting evts and international travel for many years and made her an outcast from society until the fall of communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
The organizers declined to hold a judo tournamt at the Olympics, ev though it had be a full-medal sport four years earlier. This was the last time judo was not included in the Olympic games.
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East Germany and West Germany competed as separate tities for the first time at a Summer Olympiad, and would remain so through 1988. Barbados competed for the first time as an indepdt country. Also competing for the first time in a Summer Olympiad were British Honduras (now Belize), Ctral African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (as Congo-Kinshasa), El Salvador, Guinea, Honduras, Kuwait, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Sierra Leone, and the United States Virgin Islands. Singapore returned to the Games as an indepdt country after competing as part of the Malaysian team in 1964. Suriname and Libya actually competed for the first time (in 1960 and 1964, respectively, they took part in the Oping Ceremony, but their athletes later withdrew from the competition). The People's Republic of China last competed at the 1952 Summer Games but had since withdrawn from the IOC due to a dispute with the Republic of China over the right to represt China.
North Korea withdrew from the 1968 Games because of two incidts that strained its relations with the IOC. First, the IOC had barred North Korean track and field athletes from the 1968 Games because they had participated in the rival Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) in 1966. Secondly, the IOC had ordered the nation to compete under the name North Korea in the 1968 Games, whereas the country itself would have preferred its official name: Democratic People's Republic of Korea.The Games were broadcasted in color for the first time; they were held in Latin America for the first time; it would be the first Games that athletes would be drug tested; high altitude created conditions for nearly unbreakable records; and the civil rights movement caused the world to stop and take notice.
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