8 comments on "Mexico Olympics, 1968 – graphics and design"

  1. Yes. How long is it that people have been saying the Olympics need to be rethought? The student in that video calling them “a diversion for the rich that the poor are paying for” … And that same huge police presence. It’s weird that 11 were murdered in Munich and that’s remembered, but the 25 anti-Olympic student protesters shot in the leadup to Mexico aren’t as well known. Mexico’s more remembered for the black power salutes by the black athletes on the podium:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/17/newsid_3535000/3535348.stm

    1. I know. Do you like any of the ones in that link? I don’t. None of them even comes close to any of the 70s torches. Especially the Mexican one, which might be my favourite.

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