1968 OLYMPIC  TRACK & FIELD TEAM - A TEAM FOR THE AGES

  

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"We were a �TEAM� and a very close-knit group and became �family� like no other TEAM in Olympic history."  Payton Jordan, 1968 Olympic Track and Field Coach.

The 1968 squad was arguably one on the most talented teams in Olympic history and the year was also noted for the backdrop of activity that had nothing to do with measuring tapes or stopwatches.

In 1968 the United States was entrenched in the civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam war protests, and earlier that year Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated. The entire 1968 Olympic team i.e. all sports, had been threatened with a boycott by all United States black athletes. The idea was abandoned and aside from the records that were set, the most memorable photograph of the games was the black gloved fist salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the victory stand for the 200 meter medal ceremony.

In the 200 meter dash, John Carlos seemed to have victory locked up when Tommie Smith passed him in a burst of speed and Carlos, shocked, slowed and was edged into third place.

A few of the many other highlights were the sweep of the 400 meter dash by the United States runners, and a trivia note was that all three runners in the individual 400, Lee Evans, Larry James, and Ron Freeman, and Vince Matthews, the leadoff runner in the 4x400 meter relay, were all born in the same year.

The men's 4x400 and the men's and women's 4x100 meter relay teams set world records, Bob Beamon shattered the long jump record by almost two feet by jumping over 29 feet,  Wyomia Tyus became the first woman to win back to back Olympic 100 meter titles and set a world record in the process, Jim Hines set a world record in the 100 meter dash, and Al Oerter won an unprecedented (for any event) fourth consecutive discus gold medal, and broke his own Olympic record.

Other Olympic records were set by Dick Fosbury in the high jump while also introducing the world to the flopping style of high jumping, Bob Seagren in the pole vault, Bill Toomey in the decathlon, and  Madeline Manning in the 800 meters.

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