Racism - Sport Personalities

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  1. 2. Adolf Hitler wanted to use the 1936 Olympics in Berlin,Germany,to support his idea that Aryan athletes were superior. This athlete broke three world records and earned four gold medals
  2. 3. excluded from the 1928 All Blacks tour to
  3. 6. first Maori tennis player to play at Wimbledon
  4. 7. introduced the national anthem in Te Reo at the 1999 Rugby World Cup
  5. 9. heavyweight boxing championship
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  1. 1. US Masters Golf didn’t allow African Americans to play until 1975. This 21 year old became the youngest player to win the masters
  2. 2. first African-American to join a Major League Baseball team. he became a national symbol of racial equality
  3. 4. Africa
  4. 5. who shared the podium with John Carlos, wore jackets adorned with human rights badges. The gesture came during a period of tense civil unrest in the United States
  5. 8. Captained the All Blacks and coaches the Blues team