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https://www.fidal.it/content/Una-statua-per-Peter-Norman/117363 Il velocista australiano onorato a Melbourne, 50 anni dopo la storica finale dei 200 alle Olimpiadi di Messico ’68 in cui vinse l’argento prima di solidarizzare sul podio con gli statunitensi Smith e Carlos di Giorgio Cimbrico FIDAL - 16 ottobre 2018 Cinquant’anni dopo anche Peter Norman avrà la sua statua: sarà di bronzo e verrà eretta al Lakeside Stadium di Melbourne . Meglio tardi che mai per il generoso australiano che ai Giochi di Messico ’68 espresse solidarietà a Tommie Smith e a John Carlos e al ritorno in patria si trovò a dover fronteggiare critiche e accuse, spesso basate su menzogne, preconcetti, intolleranza. Quattro anni dopo, pur avendone il diritto, non venne selezionato per l’Olimpiade di Monaco di Baviera. “ Non avrei mai pensato che un bianco potesse correre così veloce ”, disse Carlos di Norman. Veloce, certo, capace di lasciarsi alle spalle John, di correre in 20"06, dopo mezzo secolo ancora recor

Extending gloved hands skyward in protest, American athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos are pictured after receiving medals for the 200-meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on Oct. 16, 1968. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. AP https://kavigupta.com/press/162/ CBS News, October 28, 2018 Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: At the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, artist Glenn Kaino is offering a fresh take on one of the 20th century’s best-known images: Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the Olympic medal stand in Mexico City in 1968 — a moment frozen by a snapshot. A raised-fist salute, flattened in a photograph, has been given additional depth and meaning in Kaino’s art. He reproduced casts of Smith’s right arm, evoking both the backbone of a movement, and a flowing wave of power. “Those arms are Tommie’s arms, but they represent all of our arms,” Kaino said. “It’s more nuanced. It’s more textured, more layered,” said corresp

GETTY - Il conflitto.  A sinistra Luis Suarez, 37 anni,  ex attaccante dell’Uruguay.  A destra il ct Marcelo Bielsa, 69 Il KO con il Perù dopo l’attacco di Luis Suárez, Bielsa è in crisi L’inaspettata sconfitta contro l’ultima, la mancanza di gioco a Lima, le parole dell’ex centravanti. Momento duro per il Loco 14 Oct 2024 - La Gazzetta dello Sport di Filippo Maria Ricci - CORRISPONDENTE DA MADRID Più che “loco”, Marcelo Bielsa oggi è “muy triste”. La sua esperienza come Ct dell’Uruguay, iniziata tra curiosità ed entusiasmo a giugno del 2023 , non è finita ma è terribilmente compromessa tanto dentro quanto fuori del campo. I risultati improvvisamente sono diventati pessimi e l’aria nello spogliatoio si è fatta irrespirabile. È difficile dire se i primi sono derivazione diretta del secondo fattore, ma il sospetto che il guasto relazionale abbia finito col condizionare le prestazioni della nazionale “charrua” oggi è molto alto. Sconfitta pesante  «La mia autorità è stata in qualche modo

https://www.cortissonderegger.ch/black-power-salute The story behind the photograph… At the Summer Olympic Games held in Mexico City in 1968, the American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos won gold and bronze respectively for the 200-metre event. Standing on the medal podium, they waited for ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ to begin, then each bowed his head and raised a black-gloved fist in the traditional gesture of ‘Black Power’. By expressing their wish for all human beings to be treated equally, the athletes were making the most overt political statement the Olympics had ever seen. The photographer John Dominis (1921–2013) captured the moment. His image showed that Smith had removed his shoes, symbolizing black poverty. It also showed that the Australian silver medallist, Peter Norman, had chosen to wear a Human Rights badge in an act of solidarity. History relates that it was also Norman who suggested that Smith share his gloves, Carlos having left his own pair at the Olympic Vill

https://briscoecenter.org/about/news/the-john-dominis-photographic-archive/ The Briscoe Center has acquired the photographic archive of John Dominis, one of Life magazine’s most celebrated photojournalists. Perhaps his best-known photograph is from the Mexico Olympics of 1968, showing American Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos giving the Black Power salute during the national anthem at a medal ceremony for the 200m sprint. “Dominis covered all corners of the globe over a five-decade career and produced some of America’s most memorable images of politicians, sports personalities and even wild predators,” said Don Carleton, executive director at the Briscoe Center. “This large collection of slides, tear sheets and other materials enhances the center’s already unrivalled photographic collections that together create an incredible visual resource for researchers of American life in the 20th century.” John Dominis was born in Los Angeles in 1921 to Croatian immigrants . He studied phot

LIFE photographer John Dominis holds a lion cub.  (Source:  Time.com ) https://www.photographypreservation.org/john-dominis PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIONS PRESERVATION PROJECT ABOUT US John Dominis was a mainstay of Life’s legendary photography for more than 20 years. Among the magazine’s most versatile photojournalists, he covered everything: wars (Korea and Vietnam), celebrities (his pictures of Frank Sinatra and Steve McQueen became books), sports, predators in the wild, and the jungles of Washington politics. Among his most memorable pictures is the iconic image of U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos doing the black power salute during the medal ceremony at the 1968 Mexican Olympics. Without putting down his camera, Dominis became the founding picture editor of People Magazine and later became picture editor of Sports Illustrated from 1978 to 1982. In February 2017, the Dolph Briscoe Center in Austin Texas acquired his archive—40 linear feet containing slides, prints, negatives, co

Leopard about to kill a terrified baboon.  (Photo by John Dominis/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation) https://www.life.com/photographer/john-dominis/ Photographer John Dominis with his camera.  (Photo by John Dominis/The LIFE Picture Collection © Meredith Corporation) After an Air Force tour in Japan, John Dominis (1921-2013) wanted to remain in that country and work. Freelance work was illegal there in 1946 , but his photographer colleagues helped him stay and get his start. He would return many times to Asia to cover wars . Back home, he shot sports (he had played end for USC in the 1944 Rose Bowl ), politics, celebrities, even food. He spent three months trailing Sinatra to witness him in his element, among swank and boozy stars. That experience of tracking a subject helped the stalwart Dominis on his famous “The Great Cats of Africa.” The series won him an award even as he was still in the bush—and even though he orchestrated his famous baboon-leopard encounter (the

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231011-in-history-how-tommie-smith-and-john-carloss-protest-at-the-1968-mexico-city-olympics-shook-the-world 16 October 2023 - BBC Myles Burke - Features correspondent US athlete Tommie Smith attained international fame when he gave the Black Power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, 55 years ago. But as the exclusive BBC Archive clips in this new series reveal, that protest came at a heavy cost. On 16 October 1968, two black US athletes – Tommie Smith and John Carlos – stood on the podium at the Mexico City Olympics, heads bowed. They wore black socks with no shoes; Smith wore a black scarf around his neck. As the US national anthem played, they each raised a black-gloved hand in silent protest. Although no words were spoken, the moment was full of meaning. Smith, who had won gold in the 200m, setting a new world record, raised his right fist to represent Black Power. Bronze medallist Carlos, wearing a bead necklace to symbolise the lynching