Social Outbreaks Of The 1960s Olympics

The Social and Political Outbreaks of the 1960s Olympics “Bang”! The runners jump off their blocks from the start and begin to pick up lightning speed. Faster and faster, one runner breaks away, and you hear the crowd roar with excitement when the runner gets closer and closer to crossing the finish line with a new world record. The Olympics has become an amazing way to showcase worldwide competition while putting political and social issues aside. Although, not every Olympics has run as smoothly by the host country as they would have liked. The 1960s changed the way the Olympics were run because the social issues happening in America impacted the crowd and athletes, the other countries involved had social issues that impacted athlete performances, and records were set that had not been broken despite the social issues that were happening.
“Faster, Higher, Stronger” was the big motto of the 1960 Olympic games, and each athlete did their best to become …show more content…
So, athletes had been focussing on their training all when major social conflicts were occurring that had affected the way they would act by not showing any respect to the other teams. Even as countries had invaded other countries, athletes had been training for the upcoming Olympics but had been interfered with their countries social issues and sometimes had to be forced to stop training. In addition to these social issues, many spectators barely focused on how the athletes had been competing and when world records were set. All in all, the 1960s Olympic games were the games that had changed everyone’s view on how countries and athletes would act for ever future Olympics that would