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Mexico at the 1960 Summer Olympics; IOC code: MEX: NOC: Mexican Olympic Committee: Website: www.com.org.mx (in Spanish) in Rome; Competitors: 69 (63 men and 6 women) in 14 sports: Flag bearer: Pilar Roldán: Medals Ranked 41st: Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1: Summer Olympics appearances
August 25 to September 11: Mexico sends 69 athletes to the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Juan Botella (1941-1970) won a bronze medal in the men's springboard event. [8] September 21: President Adolfo López Mateos nationalizes the electrical system. [9] October 7: Isidro Fabela is awarded the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor. [10]
The Olympics in Mexico (Spanish: Olimpiada en México) is a 1969 Mexican documentary film directed by Alberto Isaac. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1] [2] The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999. [3]
The Tlatelolco massacre (Spanish: La Masacre de Tlatelolco) was a military massacre committed by the Mexican Armed Forces against the students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), and other universities in Mexico.
Logo for the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The 1968 Summer Olympic Games were scheduled to be held in Mexico City, making it the first city in a developing country to host an games edition. The government saw it as an important way to raise Mexico's profile internationally because of the tourist attendees and international television coverage of ...
Time magazine on October 25, 1968, wrote: "'Faster, Higher, Stronger' is the motto of the Olympic Games. 'Angrier, nastier, uglier' better describes the scene in Mexico City last week." [18] [19] Back home, both Smith and Carlos were subject to abuse, and they and their families received death threats. [20]
Mexico's Department of the Interior reportedly revoked funding on Friday for a conference on the government’s violent anti-insurgency policy from the 1960s to the 1980s, raising claims of ...
On 15 June 1955, at the 50th IOC Session in Paris, France, Rome won the right to host the 1960 Games, having beaten Brussels, Mexico City, Tokyo, Detroit, Budapest and finally Lausanne. Tokyo and Mexico City would subsequently host the proceeding 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics respectively.