Happy Olympics! Get ready to learn a TON of ruinous stuff about the games, from the unpleasant inventor of the torch relay to how the 1984 games changed the way Los Angeles was policed. 

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References

https://hmh.org/event/the-impact-of-racist-ideologies-jim-crow-and-the-nuremberg-laws/

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172422/hitlers-american-model?srsltid=AfmBOopIJ8XgP5D-qsXzbdgv5Txx5QWVIMW6PY6vhZ-DGrQ9IKisoXHn

Bombing of Prague/Challenger Explosion

https://english.radio.cz/80-years-ago-american-bombs-fell-prague-8842882

https://www.mentalfloss.com/holidays/valentines-day-horrible-historical-events

History of the Olympic Games

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/faq/history-and-origin-of-the-games/what-is-the-origin-of-the-olympic-games

https://www.britannica.com/sports/Olympic-Games

https://www.britannica.com/event/Classical-antiquity

https://researchguides.cpcc.edu/his111-112/world-timeline

https://www.britannica.com/sports/Pythian-Games

http://britannica.com/sports/pentathlon

https://www.suu.edu/blog/2016/08/naked-athletes-olympic-history.html

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/ancient-olympic-games

https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/roman-copies-of-greek-statues

https://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/nero.html

https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/nero-olympics/?srsltid=AfmBOoolsB8Q-kP0EylmFHnvmXcnwDvcwEddg8XdqrcZFkZ6hRNh3COd

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/ioc-overview/ioc-history/ancient-olympics/the-end-of-the-ancient-games

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/faq/history-and-origin-of-the-games/when-were-the-first-olympic-winter-games-held

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/paris-1894-olympic-congress

https://www.3wiresports.com/articles/2025/3/20/the-iocs-first-female-and-first-african-president-kirsty-coventry

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/mrs-kirsty-coventry

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/sports-and-leisure/salt-lake-city-olympics-bid-scandal

Elitism/Racism in the Olympics

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033350617301282

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/interactive-wealth-equality-and-olympic-success

https://thecrimsonwhite.com/94225/opinion/the-olympics-reveals-inequalities-in-sports/

https://theconversation.com/why-some-college-sports-are-often-out-of-reach-for-students-from-low-income-families-167334

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/special-admission/9781978821200

https://www.businessinsider.com/parents-of-olympic-athletes-have-these-3-traits-in-common-2021-8

https://fox59.com/2024-olympics/do-olympic-medalists-get-paid-it-depends/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incentives_for_Olympic_medalists_by_country

https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/news/norway-support-lower-profile-wintersport-nations

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/47618178/norway-coaches-banned-18-months-ski-jumping-suit-scandal

https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/world-news/ski-jumping-rocked-by-penis-gate-claims-athletes-manipulated-genitals-for-aerodynamic-edge/

https://www.usopc.org/us-olympic-and-paralympic-foundation

https://www.dorfonlaw.org/2016/08/the-olympics-amateurism-and-american.html

https://usopm.org/jim-thorpe/

https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/jim-thorpe-backlash-olympic-medals-debacle-and-demise-carlisle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stripped_Olympic_medals

https://www.them.us/story/history-of-racism-at-the-olympic-games

https://www.britannica.com/topic/worlds-fair

https://www.scribd.com/document/298308484/The-1904-Anthropology-Days-and-Olimpic-Games

https://www.npr.org/2004/05/31/1909651/living-exhibits-at-1904-worlds-fair-revisited

https://asianamericanedu.org/1904-worlds-fair-exhibition-of-the-igorot-filipino-people.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16295827

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a37039437/1904-olympic-marathon/

https://www.olympics.com/en/news/the-strange-case-of-the-st-louis-1904-marathon

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-olympic-torch-relays_b_96648

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-olympics-berlin-1936

https://jesseowens.com/

​​https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/MAHATEIMPCTDC0319

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/jesse-owens-and-the-greatest-45-minutes-in-sport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_Brundage

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231011-in-history-how-tommie-smith-and-john-carloss-protest-at-the-1968-mexico-city-olympics-shook-the-world

https://www.britannica.com/event/Moscow-1980-Olympic-Games

https://www.aaihs.org/black-los-angeles-and-the-lapd-in-the-early-1960s/

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/04/26/492848045/-it-s-not-your-father-s-lapd-and-that-s-a-good-thing

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/gangs-terrorism-and-radicalization

https://digitalscholarship.umich.edu/lsa-history/showcase/season-1-episode-6-transcript/

https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/operation-hammer-1987-1990/

https://cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2020/20-1376-S1_ord_draft_7-02-21.pdf

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