Diving into the Crucial Interplay of Race and Racism in Shaping the Course of Sports History

The Olympics and Racial Politics

The 1936 Berlin Olympics, held under Nazi rule, was a stark example of this, with Jesse Owens' victories serving as a powerful rebuttal to Hitler's Aryan supremacy ideology. In the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos' Black Power salute on the podium was a powerful statement against racial discrimination.