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Peter Norman Memorial, Lakeside Stadium • Given the current 'Black Lives Matter' campaign, Peter Norman is a proud white Australian who made that statement on an international stage in 1968. • Norman won the 200 metres silver medal at the 1968 Mexico Olympics in a time of 20.06 seconds, which still stands as the Australian record 52 years later. • Wearing an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge, Norman stood in solidarity on the podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos of the USA, the gold and bronze medallists, respectively, as they held their arms aloft in a Black Power salute. • It was Norman who suggested that Smith and Carlos share the black gloves used in their salute, after Carlos left his pair at the Olympic Village. This is the reason for Smith raising his right fist, while Carlos raised his left. • Despite still being the fastest Australian to have ever run the 200 meters sprint in 2020 Norman was not selected for the 1972 Summer Olympics, and retired from the sport soon after. • After the salute, Norman's career suffered greatly. A 2012 CNN profile said that "he returned home to Australia a pariah, suffering unofficial sanction and ridicule as the Black Power salute's forgotten man. He never ran in the Olympics again.” Commentators say he was not selected for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 despite recording adequate times, and was not welcomed even three decades later at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. • Norman, Smith and Carlos remained friends after Mexico City. When Norman passed away in 2006, Smith and Carlos flew to Australia to serve as pall bearers at his funeral. Carlos said that "If we [Carlos and Smith] were getting beat up, Peter was facing an entire country and suffering alone." • In 2006 the USA Track and Field proclaimed 9 October, the date of his funeral, as Peter Norman Day. • It took until 2012 for Norman to be finally recognised as an Australian hero. The Australian House of Representatives passed an official apology motion on 11 October 2012, which read: That this House: (1) recognises the extraordinary athletic achievements of the late Peter Norman, who won the silver medal in the 200 metres sprint running event at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, in a time of 20.06 seconds, which still stands as the Australian record; (2) acknowledges the bravery of Peter Norman in donning an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge on the podium, in solidarity with African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who gave the ‘black power’ salute; (3) apologises to Peter Norman for the treatment he received upon his return to Australia, and the failure to fully recognise his inspirational role before his untimely death in 2006; and (4) belatedly recognises the powerful role that Peter Norman played in furthering racial equality. Sources: https://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/athletics/2019/10/09/peter-norman-olympic-stance-statue/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Norman .

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