At a time when Novak ковиokovi.'S "detention" in Australia is the main sports news, refreshed the memories of what the authorities did to one of the best athletes in history, Peter Norman.

The move that Peter Norman do it on 1968 Mexico City Olympics, him make immortal in the history of sport and olympism, but in the homeland it cost him insults, torture, ridicule and eventually life.

Norman finished second in the 200m final behind American Tommy Smith, ahead of John Carlos. But during the medal ceremony, the 25-year-old Norman made a move that entered the annals of sports and world history.

The image of the podium with Smith and Carlos standing with their heads bowed and their left hand raised in a black glove as a sign of anti-racism and African-American rights in the United States has another lesser-known detail - Norman wearing a badge of the Olympic human rights project which pointed to the existence of racism against black athletes.

50 years ago today, Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists in protest at the 1968 Olympics. pic.twitter.com/mLyqKx2aTj

- Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) October 16, 2018

Norman wowed Smith and Carlos, who carried his coffin during a funeral in 2006, but caused him huge problems in Australia.
Although he won the silver medal and was the best athlete in his country's history, his compatriots made his life miserable because of the support of African-Americans.

Although he met the norm 13 times for the next Olympics in Munich in 1972, the selectors of the athletic team ignored him and took into account the time when he ran injured and did not fulfill the norm.

Then the hatred from the sports field transferred to his private life and his compatriots did not forgive him until his death in 2006.

Even during the 2000 Sydney Games, Norman was not invited to participate in the local promotion, nor was he among the guests of honor at the opening ceremony. Norman would have been forgotten had it not been for the US Olympic Committee and delegation member Steve Simmons, who even arranged a flight and accommodation for Peter Norman during the Games. Interestingly, Norman slept in a bed intended for Simmons, while the American athletics legend slept on the floor.

Peter Norman was born into a poor family and from an early age was taught to work and help his family, so at the age of 13 he worked in a local butcher shop.
But he used every free moment to run on the local track and when his father became aware that Peter was a talented sprinter, he borrowed a pair of sneakers from friends so his son could run. He managed to secure victory for his relay with used tracks, although he started the last substitution with a big lag behind the leader.

Success has been on the rise ever since, winning third place at the Commonwealth Games in 1966, and from 1966 to 1968 was a three-time Australian 200m champion.
Norma was such a great sprinter, says the fact that his result from the Mexico Games 1968, of 20.06 seconds, is still an Oceania record.

But instead of fame after the Mexico Games, Norman lived in real hell.
"If we had heard about our performance, Peter would have had to face the whole country and suffer alone," Carlos said a few years later.

The height of injustice was in 1972 when he was stripped of his right to compete in the Olympics, and his family began to feel the wrath of Australia on their own, forcing Peter Norman to divorce.

Norman was then subjected to constant insults from his countrymen due to which he fell into depression. He worked as a physical education teacher, then in a butcher, but after a serious injury in 1985 during a charity race, he developed gangrene of his leg, followed by a period of struggle with addiction to painkillers, followed by a struggle with alcohol.

Peter Norman died in 2006, but even then he did not receive an apology from the state. The official apology came in 2012, six years after his death.

Yesterday was the final sitting day of the decade. Parliament has seen a lot in that time, from the NDIS to same-sex marriage, but one of my favorite moments was the House apologizing to sprinter Peter Norman https://t.co/WZblhDFGPc #auspol pic.twitter.com/Oi9GWpFtlb

- Andrew Leigh (@ALeighMP) December 5, 2019