Key Athletes
This athlete's performance directly confronted Hitler's ideologies.
Who is Jesse Owens?
This city hosted the first modern Olympic Games.
What is Athens?
This person is considered the founder of the modern Olympic movement.
Who is Pierre de Coubertin?
During this Olympic year, Israeli athletes were taken hostage.
What is 1972?
Because of World War II, these two years did not host any Olympic Games.
These are the two American athletes who are most well known for their protest on the medal stand in 1968.
Who are John Carlos & Tommy Smith?
This was the first US city to host the Summer Games.
What is St. Louis?
This person was a known racist and anti-Semite and had a significant influence on the Olympics in 1936 & 1968.
Who is Avery Brundage?
At these Games, the Anthropology Days were used to demonstrate racial ideologies.
What is St. Louis (1904)?
In the early years, this event coincided with the Olympic Games.
What is the Worlds Fair?
This athlete had his medals taken from him following the Games because he had violated amateurism rules.
Who is Jim Thorpe?
What city was first to host the Games two different times?
What is Paris?
This person was at the forefront of the American Amateur Athletic Union in its early days.
Who is James E. Sullivan?
It was at these Games that the marathon finish was extended so the race could finish in front of the royal box.
What is London (1908)?
This was the name of the sport competition that was started to support disabled veterans of World War II.
What are the Stoke-Mandeville Games?
This Czech gymnast protested during the medal ceremony.
Who is Vera Caslavska?
This was the first city in the Southern Hemisphere to host the Games.
What is Melbourne?
According to a film we watched, this person helped an American athlete during the long jump competition to not commit another foul and qualify for the finals.
Who is Luz Long (Carl Long)?
Following WWII, it was during this year that German, Japanese, and Soviet athletes were allowed to compete in the Olympics again.
What is 1952?
What happened prior to the 1968 Olympics that the host city tried to cover up?
What is the Tlatelolco Massacre?
This athlete's boxing Gold Medal at the 1984 LA Games resulted in his being awarded a Silver Medal in the 1988 Seoul Games.
Who is Roy Jones, Jr.?
This city was supposed to host the 1916 Games, but they were canceled due to World War I.
What is Berlin?
This person is the founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights.
Who is Dr. Harry Edwards?
This swimmer had won the Gold Medal based on two of three timing measures, but the judges ended up giving him a Silver Medal.
Who is Lance Larson?
This was the person assassinated that led to the start of the Great War (WWI).
Who is the Archduke Ferdinand?