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PALM SPRINGS, California (Reuters) - Forty-four years after American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos electrified the Mexico City Olympics with their heads-bowed, arms-raised civil rights ...

Smith and Carlos, who held their gloved fists high on the medal stand in the 1968 Olympics, met with President Barack Obama on Thursday and had dinner with the U.S. Olympic team earlier in the week.

Since the early 1900s, athletes have made the Olympics political. Since the start of the Olympic Games in 1896, athletes have used the international stage to shine a light on social justice issues.

A new sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum pays tribute to one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history. Inspired by U.S. sprinter Tommie Smith, who with John Carlos raised his fist ...