Dick Fosbury's high jump gold medal from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics — which he won with the revolutionary Fosbury Flop — sold at auction for $158,600. The medal was one of a few Fosbury items ...
On 19th October 1968, spectators at the Estadio Olimpico in Mexico City witnessed a sporting revolution. Dick Fosbury, an enormously tall American from Portland approached the bar, set at 2.03m, for ...
The 200-meter dash at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics lasted 19.8 seconds, and gold medalist Tommie Smith’s world record lasted 11 years. But the image of Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos on the ...
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Sign used by Cathy Jamison (Imwalle) at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics. Jamison (Imwalle) placed 5th in the Women's 200 meter breaststroke at the 1968 Games. She would go on to settle in Bend, ...
A warm up tack suit jacket worn by Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. The jacket is navy blue and has a stand up for fold over collar made out of a rib knit fabric. There is a zipper ...
Mexico denied Japan a home soil medal with a 3-1 win at the bronze medal match on Friday in Saitama at the Tokyo Olympics, just as Japan did Mexico at the 1968 games in Mexico City. Mexico beat Brazil ...
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