During the medal ceremony for the 200-meter sprint at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved fists, a symbol for black power.

The country of Mexico has had a long history with the modern Olympic Games beginning with Olympiad II in Paris in 1900.

was captured 50 years ago when U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos stepped onto the world stage during the Summer Olympics in Mexico City. It was Oct. 16, 1968. Smith had just won gold and ...

Glenn Kaino’s “Bridge” installation animates the protest of Tommie Smith and John Carlos while honoring the Olympic Project for Human Rights.

More than 50 years since qualifying for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, four Team U.S.A. Track and Field members ...

Because the track is located in a public park that doubled as the official sporting complex of the 1968 Summer Olympics, it ...

George Foreman was a notoriously big puncher but has admitted there was one 'tough' heavyweight he avoided in his decorated ...

The Harvard heavyweight crew enters a new league this summer, -- international and club ... Newell Boathouse have their eyes on next year's Olympics at Mexico City. There is no definite racing ...

The first Special Olympics Games debuted in the summer of 1968, and now 50 years later, we encourage you to #ChooseToInclude people with intellectual disabilities. When Karen Ryan's daughter was ...

Luge had never been included in the Olympic program until 1964 because it was deemed too dangerous, and Kay-Skrzypecki’s death did little to dissuade those fears. 1968 Grenoble ... become the first ...

One summer, the Flemings made a campsite their ... predicted on ABC that Fleming had the jumps and the power to win the 1968 Olympics. Fleming's rise to the top was much needed in the sport.

The new approach, which featured team members playing together internationally for more than just the summer of the Olympics ... for the first U.S. team victory over the USSR in any Olympic sport ...