Summer Olympic Games specifically the long jump, in which American athlete Bob Beamon jumped 8.90 meters. Beamon's world record would stand for 23 years. The 1968 Games also introduced the now-universal Fosbury flop, a technique which won American high jumper Dick Fosbury the gold medal. Politics took center stage in the medal ceremony for the men's 200 meter dash, where Tommie Smith and John Carlos made a protest gesture on the podium against the segregation in the United States; their political act was condemned within the Olympic Movement, but was praised in the Black Power movement. Věra Čáslavská, in protest to the 1968
Olympic Summer Games (video game) Olympic Summer Games (video game) Olympic Summer Games is an official video game of the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games. It is the successor to "Olympic Gold" and "Winter Olympics". It was the last "Olympic" video game released for the fourth generation of consoles, as well as the Game Boy. It follows the already common button mashing techniques of previous (and future) games, with the usual exceptions. It has 10 events (three more than "Olympic Gold"), with all but two based on track and field events. Unlike "Winter Olympics", there are no major differences between each event on different platforms. The