Tommie Smith wins 220 yard dash and Jim Hines wins 100m ( 10.2h ) 02 .JUN .1967 Los Angeles, CA.

Thomas C. "Tommie" Smith (born June 6, 1944 in Clarksville, Texas) is an American former track and field athlete and Olympic champion. He is best known for his Black Power protest at the 1968 Olympics.
Career
Although he was rather sickly as a child, he later grew into a 1.91 m tall, 84 kg athlete with great endurance. As a student at San Jose State University in 1967, he won the national championship in the 220-yard dash. He won a gold medal in the 200 meters at the 1967 Summer Universiade in Tokyo. In 1968, as an AAU champion, he won the 200-meter race, and was then included in the Olympic team. He was coached by Bud Winter.
At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 200 meters, setting a world record in a time of 19.83 s, ahead of Australian Peter Norman (silver) and American John Carlos (bronze).
During his running career, Smith set world records at various distances. His best times were 10.1 seconds in the 100 m race, 19.83 seconds in the 200 m race and 44.5 seconds in the 400 m race. His world best time of 19.5 seconds in the 200 meters straight on May 7, 1966 was only broken again in 2010 by Tyson Gay with a result of 19.41 seconds.
After graduating in 1969, he became a professional football player for the Cincinnati Bengals for three years and then coached at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he majored in sociology. He taught at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California until his retirement in 2005.
Olympic Games
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Tommie Smith became famous for his symbolic protest at the 1968 Olympics. He and his teammate Carlos raised their black-gloved fists at the medal ceremony on October 16, 1968, for their triumph in the 200 meters, a symbol of the Olympics movement at the time Black Power, which was directed against discrimination against the African-American population. At the same time, he held in his left hand a framed olive branch, a symbol of peace, given to all gold medal winners. Harry Edwards tried to motivate African-Americans to boycott the Olympic Games due to mass racial discrimination. Only the Black Power Salute remains. The same day, following the IOC's threat to expel the entire U.S. delegation, Smith and his teammate Carlos were dismissed by the U.S. National Olympic Committee and asked to leave the Olympic Village. The IOC sharply criticized the actions of Smith and Carlos, but - contrary to what some media claimed - it did not reject the gold medal.
Jim Hines (actually James Ray Hines; born September 10, 1946 in Dumas, Arkansas; † June 3, 2023) was an American sprinter and Olympic champion. He held the world record in the 100 meter dash for almost 15 years.
biography
Hines was a baseball player in his youth until he was discovered by a track coach who groomed him into a world-class sprinter. In June 1968, Hines was clocked in 9.9 seconds at the US Track and Field Championships in Sacramento (electronic timing: 10.03 seconds), becoming the first athlete in history to break the 10-second mark. In the other semi-final, Charles Greene and Ronnie Ray Smith equalized this time.
The preparation for the Olympic Games in Mexico City in October 1968 was overshadowed by the racial unrest in the USA. The black athletes on the U.S. national team, including Hines, considered boycotting the games. Ultimately it didn't happen, and Hines qualified for the Olympic final of the 100 meters on October 14, 1968. He won the race ahead of the Jamaican Lennox Miller and his compatriot Charles Greene in an electronically timed 9.95 s It is unclear whether this time represented an improvement on the world record. However, the World Athletics Association IAAF rated the 9.95 s as faster than the hand-stopped 9.9 s and recognized it as a new world record. Hines was also the first runner to break the 10-second barrier using electronic timing. In the 4 x 100 meter relay, Hines ran with Charles Greene, Mel Pender and Ronnie Ray Smith to his second world record in 38.2 seconds and won gold.
After the Olympics, Hines played American football for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Dolphins in the sixth round, 146th overall, in 1968. Hines was used as a wide receiver. In 1970 he moved to the Kansas City Chiefs. He ended his career after one game with the Chiefs.
His 100 meter world record stood for almost 15 years. It wasn't until July 3, 1983 that the American Calvin Smith improved the mark to 9.93 s.
Jim Hines died on June 3, 2023 at the age of 76.

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