Nettavisen skriver at Peter Norman fra Australia er død. Han sto også på pallen under Mexico-OL i 1968, da to afrikansk-amerikanere Tommie Smith og John Carlos bøyet hodet og reiste armen med knyttet neve i Black Power-hilsen. Dette var en protest mot rasismen i hjemlandet.
Også Norman hadde samme protestmerke på jakken som de to andre, men han deltok forøvrig ikke i protesten. Ifølge John Carlos hadde Peter Norman en indre kraft.
Den internasjonale olympiske komite, ledet av Avery Brundage, reagerte kraftig mot at OL ble brukt til politisk markering. Wikipedia skriver: "Brundage expelled both men from the Olympic Village and suspended them from the US Olympic team."
I kontrast til Peter Norman, Tommie Smith og John Carlos, står Avery Brundage. Hold deg fast, kjære leser:
Han var også IOC-leder under München-Ol i 1972: "He may be best remembered for his controversial decision during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, to continue the Games following the 5th September Palestinian terrorist attack which killed 11 Israeli athletes. Many criticized Brundage’s decision, although few athletes withdrew from the Games. The Olympic competition was suspended on September 5 for one full day. The next day, a memorial service of 80,000 spectators and 3,000 athletes was held in the Olympic Stadium. To the outrage of many listeners, Brundage made no reference at all to the slain athletes during his speech, and instead praised the strength of the Olympic movement; his view was that "the games must go on"."
Brundage ville ikke ekskludere apartheid-regimet Rhodesia fra IOC: "Brundage strongly opposed the exclusion of Rhodesia from the Olympics due to its apartheid policies; after the attacks in Munich, Brundage linked the massacre of the Israeli athletes and the barring of the Rhodesian team as crimes of equal magnitude."
Han hadde pro-nazi-sympatier ifølge Wikipedia: "Brundage later praised the Nazi regime at a Madison Square rally, and was expelled from the America First Committee in 1941 because of his pro-German leanings."
Oppdatert: NRK har også omtalt dødsfallet, her.