"International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Avery Brundagedeemed it to be a domestic political statement unfit for the apolitical, international forum the Olympic Games were intended to be. In response to their actions, he ordered Smith and Carlos suspended from the US team and banned from the Olympic Village. When the US Olympic Committee refused, Brundage threatened to ban the entire US track team. This threat led to the expulsion of the two athletes from the Games.[10]
A spokesman for the IOC said Smith and Carlos’s actions were “a deliberate and violent breach of the fundamental principles of the Olympic spirit.”[3]Brundage, who was president of the United States Olympic Committee in 1936, had made no objections against Nazi salutes during the Berlin Olympics****. He argued that the Nazi salute, being a national salute at the time, was acceptable in a competition of nations, while the athletes’ salute was not of a nation and therefore unacceptable."
Nah, I just had a collection of photos from different iconic moments. Usually with some sort of theme of rebellion. This one just happened to be driven by race issues.
Ha, I don’t know what to tell ya Turd. It was college and I was into the whole “rebellion” thing. I made a series of videos outrunning cops at that time with fake plates on my car in the era of 8mm camcorders. I had blue hair, wore leather jackets and had a chain wallet and was definitely a big douche.
Its coming out that he will likely be cut. I think he will use this and the fact that Chip has been labeled a racist coach (cut djax and mccoy while keeping cooper) and try to sue the team.
Definitely did this and still have the videos. Won’t post them though.
Edit: It gets even funnier because it was in the last model of the trans am (trailer park ferrari) which was too embarrassing to include the first description. In case there was any doubt that I grew up in the country.
I know guys that did this sort of thing in rural Kansas. They were living out their Dukes of Hazzard fantasies. Even when they got caught nothing happened to them because the sheriff was their brother and dad.