The Australian in this Iconic Olympic Moment
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- čas přidán 15. 04. 2021
- At the 1968 Olympic Games there was an iconic protest for racial justice. Peter Norman was the Australian athlete who played a role in this powerful moment.
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Peter Norman was my great uncle, and I was there at the opening of this statue. pretty cool video!
What a legend to have as your great uncle!
Doubt
Peter Norman's 200m time of 20.06seconds at the 1968 Mexico Games is still the fastest ran by an Australian. In the 50 years since, with better training, billions thrown into athletics development and better nutritional knowledge, his time is still the fastest time ran by an Aussie (and also Oceanic) athlete over 200m...
50 years, not bettered by any Aussie: Let that sink in.
Not only that, it was done at high altitude.
@@Elitist20less air resistance
Me watching this "yeah, Australia was probably pretty racist back in the 1960's, but that's forever ago"
Julian: "... and wasn't invited to attend the 2000 Sydney games"
Me: 😨
Don't forget we still have people living who endured the stolen generation
yeah it's still ongoing. from our continued appaling treatment towards the indigenous, to high indigenous death rates in custody, to our frequent violations of international rights treaties and norms on asylum seekers and refugees. we have a lot to be ashamed of, unfortunately.
we seem to want to forget that we lock children in cages.
He was invited by the Americans
It's 2021 and Australia is incredibly racist. It'll be 2 years since I arrived here next week and despite having some great progressive people/politicians, there's a huge racism problem.
Top bloke, great athlete. 👍
A very dignified presentation Julian. ⭐ Thankyou.
Thanks, mate.
When I studied this incident in my 9th grade, I was curious to know what happened to Peter when he returned to his home country. Keep Making such video 👍
Thanks for this Julian, I had no idea we honored the man.
It's truly amazing and absolutely so sad how we treat our heroes in life and death. We often make the mistake of honoring them in death and not in life.
This doco explains a lot... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute_(2008_film)
Thank you for sharing this. As an American, I did not know this part of history. This helped me to understand this historic moment.
To clarify, Norman wasn't selected for the 1972 Olympic team because he didn't run a fast enough time, and contemporary sources at the final qualifier do say that it was unfortunate that he couldn't compete in the upcoming Olympics.
Norman worked as an Athletics Administrator up until the 2006 commonwealth games, announcing many Olympic teams, including the Athletics team for the 2000 Olympics. Although in my opinion, with many in the AOC knowing the content of the Sydney opening ceremony (where a major theme is Indigenous Reconciliation) Norman should have absolutely been invited to the ceremony as an attendee.
The AOC in 2018 awarded posthumously the AOC order of merit with John Coates saying "I absolutely think we've been negligent in not recognising the role he played back then."
Thanks for this - yep - there’s a lot to this amazing story. Including, of course, what an incredible athlete he was - his 200m record still stands, I believe. Insane. (You’d think that alone would get you an invite to the 2000 Games)
As for the qualifying times for 1972 - I’ve heard it’s complex - that he did run fast enough qualifying times in the lead up - but behind other athletes. This was originally mentioned in the draft Parliamentary apology, but taken out due to ambiguity.
Cheers for the extra info!
@@JulianOShea apparently the entire mens sprint team was canned in 1972, try and find anyone selected for a sprint thats male
Awesome as usual Julian, thank you.
Thanks, mate!
Wow, thank you for producing this content, makes me a little bit more proud of the people that helped this country be the amazing place it is today.
Thanks for watching!
There was a painting of this moment on the railway line into Sydney (at McDonaldtown IIRC). A great man!
Julian, these factoids are so fascinating. Keep up the wonderful work, Mate!
Thanks, mate!
Okay but the statue craftsmanship is amazing. The details, holy shit!
His son Matt Norman put out a documentary about this called 'Salute' in 2007 I think.
Ohhhh mate, I'm embarrassed that I was unaware of the whole story behind this iconic photo. It doesn't surprise me that he was shunned by our government for this, as in 1968 the white Australia policy still stood. Thanks for educating me further about this image and how brave Peter was during that medal ceremony.
It had Nothing to do with white policy. Gees.
@@Mav_F Don't even try, these people are so brainwashed it is impossible to talk sense into them
@@slavenrasic2173 Yeah but I can try.
Black power is perfectly fine with you ppl But any other race saying something similar is frowned upon… black privilege is real!
@@CrustyUgg I think they are talking about the Australian white policy that only officially dismantled in 1973
Thank you for teaching me this
Thanks Tommy and John for being better humans than the Australians who refused to let this man compete in the following Olympics and even recently attend the Sydney Olympics. ❤
i just see a guy who isn't rasing his fist.
You should watch the documentary on this. Called salute. Him standing there was the much better option than doing the black power sign himself. The three were great friends for decades after this.
So he just stood there and that got him a statue?
Lol
My neighbour used to run with Peter Norman when they were at uni.
Peter Norman's story is one of my favourite, albeit sad, Olympic stories.
Whosever idea/decision it was to not invite him to 2000 olympics needs to publicly named and shamed.
At least they recognized what an actual Legend he was. RIP.💗🔥
Unreal that in 2000 he was still cast aside 😳 absolutely despicable
solidarity king ✌️
a true hero
Thanks for the video.
I hope the that your exceptional Quality/Subscribers ratio is ruined by a big change in the denominator
Australia is a ridiculous place, even more so now than ever.
Very depressing the amount of racist dog whistling in the comments here. Norman is a hero.
Wow I am ashamed that Australia treated this legend in such a derogatory way. What the hell. All 3 men are heroes. Peter Norman I am sorry.
Are you related to Rick O'Shay ?
We literally had a gun fight with the Americans over their segregation in Brisbane during WW2. Where did we slide so far backwards from that?
What???
I wish you get higher views.. Thanks, Julian! Your video makes me love Melbourne so much more! Great work!
Thanks a lot!
Dignified is the exact word for this video.
Respect 👍🏽❤👍🏽
Again, another beautiful presented video with a stack of researched information. This is so well done and respectful towards the story of an amazing man.
i'm a little confused, so he had the human rights badge, but was he considered racist for not raising a fist or the opposite for not doing so, because it wasn't his place to do so?
What remarkable act....just standing there with a badge on??
And it still had such a negative impact on his career, he knew what was going to be the outcome and still decided to support his fellow athletes in whichever way he could.
Well it always comes a little damn too late.
Are we just going to pass over a white guy taking Olympic silver in the 200?
What did he even do ?
It makes no sense they we're from Australia I thought only America had segregation and used black Americans as slaves
Hebrews not African Americans. 400 and done.
Hey Julian-Discord’s ready. Whenever you want to, notify me so I can send an invite and you can shout it out
Love these facts
Based
This is pretty woke
Hahahah what a comedy
Guy puts a pin on his shirt that says "I liek blag pepo" and gets a statue
They need to make a film about this brother. Australia did him SO dirty!!!
Fucking hero
Video wrong way round -->!!
Oy black power???
The photo is iconic but did Peter Norman do anything that was greater than any other silver medalist or was he just a guy at the time and place in history. Yes, a silver medal at the Olympics is an outstanding achievement but I just want to know why does he have a statue?
He participated in this protest - wearing a Human Rights badge, supporting it (he didn’t do the salute as he wasn’t black). This was long due recognition for his brave and bold stand that was met negatively at the time. His Australian record for 200m stands to this day. The statue recognises his protest for racial equality, though.
They were his black gloves.
I heard (which is my way of saying I don't have a source on hand and the I might get something a bit wrong) that he discussed with the two other runners if he should do it too, but they decided he should stand there not saluting, but in solidarity, with the pin on.
For his involvement in it, his life would never be the same because Australia had, and still does, a huge racism problem.
@@manbearpig900 what problem? Fkn whole country is 80% from abroad origins. I think you mean foreigners are racist to other foreigners.
@@Lemon83166 it's cute that you seem to live in a bubble where you are neither able nor willing to comprehend the role of race in our nation's history.
The Nazi salutes were allowed in Nazi Germany? You don't say.
EVen tHoUgh ThEy allowEd NAZI salut!
You just said it was 1937. The war hadn't begun yet. The true face of nazism wasnt seen
What's the difference between the black power salute and the Nazi slew I don't think either are right
Word to the wise open up the history book, especially black history in White America
Well several things but put simply the black power salute is a symbol of resistance to oppression. The Nazi salute is a symbol of oppression.
Also the Nazis killed 10 million people in death camps.
@@derj1981 Don't reproduce
You put forth your best effort, you win, you receive an award... Protest on your Own Time.
Ah, the closed fist commie salute.
Who cares? 🙄
Explains why he came second
huh?
It good that Peter Norman was not bullied to support something in 1968. Today more people need that courage against BLM.