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Collett's actions were directed at the U.S. coaching staff, not the flag or the National Anthem. "We were just mad about a lot of things. We didn't think it would blow up like this. We were asked to apologize. I'm not really sorry for what I did. I'm sorry for the way people
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Collett, bare-footed, leaped from the No. 2 tier to the No. 1 stand beside his teammate. They stood sideways to the flag, twirling their medals, with
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I wasn't acting any differently than I usually do, but we were like goldfish in a fishbowl, in front of all those people. If they wanted me to stand at attention, I could've probably done that, but it wouldn't be me, and I was led to believe that the
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The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany
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1084:"ESPN.com - Page2 - Violating the Olympic spirit"
852:"The third man: The forgotten Black Power hero"
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1602:Ireland Summer Olympics ticket scandal
1474:"Blood in the Water" water polo match
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309:Revolutionary Black Panther Party
1400:Games of the New Emerging Forces
925:Schiller, K.; Young, C. (2010).
870:Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
850:James Montague (24 April 2012).
677:1968 Olympics Black Power salute
649:1972 Olympics Black Power salute
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184:African People's Socialist Party
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1666:List of stripped Olympic medals
1530:Centennial Olympic Park bombing
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274:May 19th Communist Organization
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304:Revolutionary Action Movement
229:Black Riders Liberation Party
1634:COVID-19 cases at Tokyo 2020
970:. California. 17 March 2010.
835:Jimson Lee (February 2011).
536:Black Power in the Caribbean
234:Black Women's Defense League
1772:Olympic Games controversies
1673:Doping at the Olympic Games
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1538:Winter Olympic bid scandal
319:Symbionese Liberation Army
1717:1972 in the United States
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541:Black Power in Montreal
412:Martin Luther King, Jr.
294:New Black Panther Party
259:Huey P. Newton Gun Club
1594:Russian doping scandal
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1172:"USATF - Hall of Fame"
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239:British Black Panthers
219:Black Radical Congress
194:Black Guerrilla Family
70:Black Power Revolution
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1522:Kozakiewicz's gesture
1033:The Milwaukee Journal
887:Hartmann, D. (2004).
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209:Black Panther Militia
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1578:LGBT rights protests
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988:. September 8, 1972.
665:1972 Summer Olympics
65:Black power movement
1787:Politics and sports
1782:Protests in Germany
1482:Tlatelolco massacre
1192:. 11 December 2022.
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756:, Collett said the
329:Weather Underground
249:Five-Percent Nation
244:Conscious Community
214:Black Panther Party
55:Black Arts Movement
1514:Black Power salute
1490:Black Power salute
1154:"Black Enterprise"
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571:Red Power movement
526:Black Lives Matter
452:Stokely Carmichael
442:Robert F. Williams
422:Malik Zulu Shabazz
372:Fay Bellamy Powell
189:Assata's Daughters
60:Black is beautiful
1762:History of Munich
1752:Color photographs
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1392:People's Olympiad
1128:"400 metres, Men"
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900:978-0-226-31855-4
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