Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty much on my best manners. In fact, I was incredibly humble. My obligations were primarily to the crew and I was going to make sure the crew rowed. If I had been in track, I would have let them send me home and then I would have taken them to court," he said...
...Denver airport, the crew was rebuked for wearing OPHR buttons while the officials ignored the black girls on the track and field team who wore them. Curt Canning asked John Carlos if the officials had challenged the button-wearers on the men's track and field team. Carlos said, "They know that if they give us any shit, we'll tell them to go fuck themselves." Then Carlos added, "Do you know why they gave you shit?" "Because you're white and they don't know what you're doing with us black bastards...
...Americans dominated track and field, winning 15 events, as 15 world records were broken and two others tied. Curiously, the stiffest competition came not from the Russians, who proved unaccountably weak, but from three African nations-Kenya, Ethiopia and Tunisia-which among them won every running event from the 1,500 meters to the traditional 26-mile 385-yd. Greek marathon. Kansas' Jim Ryun, the 1,500-meter world record holder, could only moan, "My God, how it hurts," after losing to Kipchoge Keino, who ran it in 3 min. 34.9 sec.-second fastest time ever recorded...
Money in the Shoes? No Olympics would be complete without a scandal, and this time the rhubarb involved alleged under-the-table payments to U.S. and foreign athletes by rival German track-shoe manufacturers. Rumor piled on rumor: stories told of payoffs ranging as high as $6,500; officials were said to have canceled checks to prove that bribes were paid; several U.S. medal-winners were reported guilty. But rumors the stories remained after the U.S. Olympic Committee investigated and announced that it could find "nothing to substantiate" them...
...ever filmed-is only the beginning. During the couple's repeatedly interrupted trip, which lasts for the rest of the movie, wrecked autos, hideously dismembered bodies and senseless violence meet them at every turn. There are a few irrelevant respites, such as a Mozart sonata on the sound track while the camera pans around a farm at sunset, and a couple of overlong political harangues on black revolution and the war in the Mid dle East. But always the film turns back to the violence-on the road and off it-that everyone begins to take as a matter...