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CNN supports Milorad Cavic At the 1968 Olympics, when the U.S. flag began rising up the flagpole and the anthem played, the two men bowed their heads and raised their fists in a black power salute. Within hours, Tommie Smith and John Carlos were expelled from the Olympic Village and were stripped of their medals. Avery Brundage justified this by saying, "They violated one of the basic principles of the Olympic Games: that politics play no part whatsoever in them." The LA Times accused Smith and Carlos of a "Nazi-like salute." But if they were being attacked from all corners, they received support from unlikely sources. The Olympic Crew Team, all white and entirely from Harvard, issued a statement: "We as individuals have been concerned about the place of the black man in American society in their struggle for equal rights. As members of the US Olympic team, each of us has come to feel a moral commitment to support our black teammates in their efforts to dramatize the injustices and inequities which permeate out society." Likewise, Serbian swimmer Milorad Čavić received a support from an unlikely source - the CNN itself. Tags: Milorad Cavic Serb swimmer swimming Serbia Kosovo |
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