Sport-On this day: Born June 6, 1944: Tommie Smith, American （短距離で）速く走る人
By Frank Pingue
June 5 (Reuters) - Tommie Smith was once の中で the fastest men on the 惑星 but it is the raised-握りこぶし 抗議する he took part in at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, a gesture that became a symbol of the civil 権利s 時代, that he remains most known for.
After breaking the 200 metres world 記録，記録的な／記録する, Smith and fellow American John Carlos, who finished third, stood on the podium in 黒人／ボイコット socks with their 長，率いるs 屈服するd and 黒人／ボイコット-gloved 握りこぶしs in the 空気／公表する during the playing of the U.S. 国家の 国家.
The image became an 耐えるing symbol of the 騒然とした 1960s and the fight for racial equality. It was 広範囲にわたって 解釈する／通訳するd as a 黒人／ボイコット 力／強力にする salute, but Smith later 述べるd it as a "human 権利s salute."
Smith and Carlos, who said they wore the 黒人／ボイコット socks to 代表する 黒人／ボイコット poverty, were 一時停止するd from the U.S. Olympic team and sent home, where they received death 脅しs and hate mail.
"I knew it would have an 衝撃 but I didn't know how far it would go," Smith told Reuters in 2018 ahead of the 50th 周年記念日 of the 握りこぶし-raising 抗議する.
"It was a calling for me to do it ... A lot of people had died for the sake of equality. That was my chance. I had a 壇・綱領・公約."
The 抗議する, which occurred not long after the 暗殺 of Rev. ツバメ Luther King Jr., cost Smith and Carlos dearly as they were heroes to their 同時代のs but pariahs to the 設立.
For １０年間s the two （短距離で）速く走る人s were left on the sidelines of the 公式の／役人 U.S. Olympic movement. Their 2016 visit to the White House, along with U.S. Olympic 委員会 leaders, 示すd the first 公式の／役人 event they'd been part of since their 追放／剥奪.
"Without sacrifice, there can be no 今後 movement," Smith said in 2018. "You have to give up something before you can receive something and usually that something is much better."
One of a sharecropping family of 12 children who grew up in Texas, Smith had the ideal build for a long sp rinter along with trademark-accelerations 負かす／撃墜する the stretch that made him one of the most versatile （短距離で）速く走る人s in history.
Smith 始める，決める 11 world 記録，記録的な／記録するs, 含むing the 200- and 400-メーター 示すs, and was just 24 when his sprinting career was 削減（する） short.
In Mexico City, Smith 完全にするd the 200 metres in 19.83, a time that stood for 11 years and one he said could have been even faster if he had not lost 速度(を上げる） by raising his 武器 in 勝利 over the final strides.
A 非常に高い 人物／姿／数字 with the gift of 速度(を上げる）, Smith was even 草案d by the 国家の Football League's Los Angeles 押し通すs in 1967.
He later 調印するd to play for the Cincinnati Bengals of the American Football League and for three years played on their practice squad as a wide receiver. During the 1969 season, he played in two games, catching one pass for 41 yards.
Last November, Smith and Carlos received the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic 委員会's highest 栄誉（を受ける） as they were inducted の上に the organisation's Hall of Fame. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Frank Pingue in Toronto, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
