KINE 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Abebe Bikila, Ganefo, Sukarno
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This is the rst time that the games goto asia. This was kind of an acceptance letter to japan, telling them that people now forgive them for zwhat they did in world war 2, and that they can be part of the national committee again. Yoshinori sakai, the guy that carried the torch into the stadium, was born on the day beside. Volleyball and judo were both added to this olympics. In this olympics: south africa is banned from the olympics, the u2 u. s. spy plane was shot down by the ussr, the ganefo games (games of the new emerging forces) The u2 crisis of 1960: this was a spy plane that was shot down by the ussr. They then showed the pilot and the plane to prove that they were not lying: this made extra tension between the u. s. and the soviet union.