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Politics and the Olympics

davidmesaaz sent a shout to dan222555   27 days ago

Great slide show on the history of boycotting the Olympics games.

This slide show by Frank Deford gives a history of Olympic boycotts from 1906 to 2008. The Olympic torch ceremony and the lighting of the flame was not tradition from ancient Greece but the idea of a Nazi propaganda department. The Olympic flame is the only Nazi symbol with positive connotations still in use today.