Jewell, a security guard at the Olympics, was the first to detect the bomb and clear off most spectators from the park. Unfortunately, Jewell had to bear a significant amount of harassment when the FBI implicated him as a suspect and the media aggressively preyed on him for days.
Months after the bombing, Jewell was finally exonerated when sufficient evidence against him was not found. It was only in when Rudolph, a handyman, and carpenter, became a new target of the Olympic bombing case. Three more similar cases of terror attacks in abortion clinics and gay bars were linked to him.
He was finally arrested in and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. The two Olympic Games of and were both canceled due to wars. However, the IOC at Japan was hopeful that the war would soon end. As the war intensified, other nations of the world could see that the feasibility of Tokyo hosting the Olympics was quite low. They demanded a shift of venue and threatened to boycott the Games if it continued to be scheduled to the venue at Tokyo. However, Japan continued to persist on hosting the Games even when the Japanese military demanded that metals be spared for war and Olympic constructions be made entirely of wood.
Finally, Japan yielded to the pressures of the war and declared the Olympics as canceled on July 16, Though Helsinki in Finland was designated as the alternative venue for this Olympics, the Winter War that began in between the Soviet Union and Finland, led to a final cancellation of the Olympics. The Summer Olympics was scheduled to be held in London, England but was canceled. London went on to host the Summer Olympics instead of the Games.
The Soviet Union, though invited, also chose to stay away from this international sporting affair. London hosted the Olympics for the second time after No new venues were built for the Games and the athletes were hosted in existing accommodations. An Olympic Village was not built this time. Forced labor from Germany was used in the construction of the Games facilities.
The use of forced labor was done as per the provisions of the Yalta conference. The forced labor primarily involved German prisoners of war. Thus, Italy was allowed to send its athletes to the Olympics. The London Games was also the first time when India , Pakistan , and the Philippines competed as independent nations. However, the Soviet Union formally stated that a lack of security for its athletes was its reason of boycotting the Games.
A parallel event, the Friendship Games, was hosted by the Eastern Bloc. For different reasons, Iran and Libya also boycotted the Games. The collision injured Decker who had to leave the game. Although Budd was leading the game, the boos from the spectators discouraged her, and she ended up in the 7th position.
Inspection of the events by an IAAF jury made it clear that Budd was not responsible for the collision. Also, during the Games, controversy brewed up during a light heavyweight boxing match when the referee, Yugoslavian Gligorije Novicic, disqualified the leading American athlete, Evander Holyfield for repeatedly hitting the break.
Holyfield ended up with the bronze medal while his competitor New Zealander Kevin Barry managed to grasp the silver medal. Protests by spectators and athletes against their governments were publicly displayed in stray events during the Olympic Games held at Mexico City, Mexico. Two African-American athletes, John Carlos and Tommie Smith, from the United States, raised their black-gloved arms during the medal ceremony where they won the gold and silver medals for their country in the meter running event.
They kept their arms raised as the American anthem was played. Both also wore black socks in shoeless feet during the ceremony representing black poverty. A black scarf was also adorned by Smith to represent black pride. She was welcomed as a hero in Czechoslovakia but was outcasted by the Soviet government. The Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil faced several controversies leading up to and during the games.
To being, the health and safety of the athletes was questioned due to not only the Zika virus but also do to water pollution.
Numerous athletes declined to participate due to fear on contracting the Zika virus, however the WHO later confirmed that there were no reported cases among athletes. Environmental issues in Rio de Janeiro were also an issue leading up to the games.
Many questioned the safety of holding aquatic competitions such as sailing and windsurfing in the heavily polluted Guanabara Bay. The Russian doping scandal was one of the biggest controversies of the Olympics. Just prior to the Opening Ceremony, Russian athletes were barred from competing due to doping. Only Russian athletes were cleared to compete. A number of boycotts resulted in this poor attendance, the worst figure since the Rome Games.
The boycott prevented a much awaited competitive meet between two athletes, John Walker of New Zealand and Filbert Bayi of Tanzania, who had previously made world records in meters and mile run events. Walker went on to win the gold medal in the meters event. A Soviet pentathlete was also caught flouting the rules of the Games, leading to disqualification of the entire Soviet pentathlon team. The strained relations between countries after the war and the decisions taken at the Paris Peace Conference severely affected the Summer Olympics of The loss of the Central Powers in the war influenced the barring of these five nations from the event.
The ban on Germany remained in place till In response, Germany hosted a separate series of games, the Deutsche Kampfspiele, as an alternative option to the Summer Olympics. Over the decades, the Olympics have pressed on through history, despite international conflicts , doping scandals, boycotts , and even massacres. Teen Vogue looks back at eight of the biggest Olympic scandals and controversies in history. Berlin was chosen as the site of the Olympics before Hitler had come to power and there were questions about whether he would go through with hosting the Games.
In the end, he did; historians say he and his comrades saw the Games as an opportunity to spread propaganda and demonstrate the power of the Nazi regime on an international stage. At the time, the Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany , were gaining power, Jewish people were being persecuted in Germany and across Europe, and some American Jewish athletes had boycotted the Games in protest.
Interestingly, in one of Owens's victories, the meter relay, he was not in the original lineup. Glickman reportedly said this move was a capitulation to anti-Semitism, with the American track coach and American Olympic Committee president trying to prevent a scenario in which Hitler had to witness two Jewish athletes triumph in the race.
Blood streams from the cut eye of Ervin Zador, injured during a brawl with Russian water polo players during the closing minutes of the Soviet-Hungary match. They were the first Games to be staged outside of the Northern Hemisphere. Throughout the game, four players were taken out of the pool for unsportsmanlike conduct. The game ended prematurely with the Hungarian staking the victory and being escorted from the pool by Australian officials.
Soldiers are seen in the streets near the Olympic stadium days after the Mexican army opened fire on youth demonstrators during protests against the police.
Ten days before the opening ceremony of the Mexico City Games, the country was rocked by the Tlatelolco Massacre. Fifty years later, the death toll from the massacre is still unknown, though at the time student leaders estimated protesters had died the government claimed it was only Though the Games did start on schedule 10 days later, they were also marked by another scandal.
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