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Politics in Sport

Politics in Sport. The Nazi Olympics Sport as Propaganda, USSR Bloodbath in Melbourne 1956 The Black Panthers, Mexico City 1968 The Munich Massacre, Munich 1972 Olympic Boycots, Moscow 1980 LA 1984. The Nazi Olympics. Berlin 1936. Adolf Hitler – the Nazi party. Symbolism Propaganda.

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Politics in Sport

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  1. Politics in Sport The Nazi Olympics Sport as Propaganda, USSR Bloodbath in Melbourne 1956 The Black Panthers, Mexico City 1968 The Munich Massacre, Munich 1972 Olympic Boycots, Moscow 1980 LA 1984

  2. The Nazi Olympics • Berlin 1936

  3. Adolf Hitler – the Nazi party • Symbolism • Propaganda

  4. Jesse Owens - 4 World Records

  5. The results • The XI Olympic Games concluded with Germany as the overall victor, capturing 89 medals. • The Americans came in second with 56.

  6. Helsinki 1952 • USSR in Finland

  7. WW II Russia • The great wars that had devastated Europe were over. Mother Russia had suffered unimaginable losses. • Over 20 million of her people had died in World War II alone. • Now the fire of war had grown cold and so had the spirit of a passionate and strong people. • How to rekindle that spirit? • In 1952 the Soviets challenged Capitalism at the Olympics. Their athletes would carry the torch of a new ideology into an arena where their strength and will would define that spirit.

  8. The Soviet Union USSR / CCCP Soviet Sports Wars

  9. Melbourne 1956

  10. Bloodbath in Melbourne 1952

  11. Mexico City 1968 • Only 10 days before the games began, government troops fired on a mass protest by striking teachers and students, killing hundreds

  12. Tommie Smith & John Carlos

  13. Munich 1972 11 Israeli athletes murdered in the Olympic Village by Palestine terrorists

  14. Ankie Spitzer, widow of the Israeli fencing coach, Andre Spitzer, who was slain by Arab terrorists on Sept. 5, 1972, surveys the room where the incident occurred at Munich, Germany's Olympic Village on Sept. 8, 1972. The chalk circles on the wall were made by West German police to trace the impact of the bullets. Photo courtesy of Associated Press

  15. Moscow and L.A.

  16. Moscow 1980 Vasily Alexi

  17. Moscow 1980

  18. Los Angeles 1984

  19. Los Angeles 1984

  20. Sources • olympic.org • pbs.org • abc.net.au • bbc.co.net

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