Post by SSHoya on Oct 10, 2018 5:38:56 GMT -5
In the fall of 1964, Paul Hoffman walked into the Harvard boathouse and hung from the wall a Mexico City tourism poster. He was a freshman at the time but knew exactly how he wanted this college rowing career to end: with a spot competing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
There was no way to know then, of course, what all that might entail: how he would reach those Mexico City Games but find himself at odds with the men who ran the U.S. Olympic team, how racial tensions and the civil rights movement would consume the country, how he would choose a side in the debate and become an oft-forgotten part of one of the biggest stories of activism in a sporting arena.
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/10/09/forgotten-story-harvard-rowers-who-supported-tommie-smith-john-carlos/?utm_term=.fda98632614c
There was no way to know then, of course, what all that might entail: how he would reach those Mexico City Games but find himself at odds with the men who ran the U.S. Olympic team, how racial tensions and the civil rights movement would consume the country, how he would choose a side in the debate and become an oft-forgotten part of one of the biggest stories of activism in a sporting arena.
www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2018/10/09/forgotten-story-harvard-rowers-who-supported-tommie-smith-john-carlos/?utm_term=.fda98632614c