![]() ![]() The world as we know it was coming into view. There was increasing pressure to provide equal rights for blacks and women. Fourteen nations were being born in sub-Saharan Africa. While East and West Germans competed as a unified team, less than a year before the Berlin Wall, there was a dispute over the two Chinas. The 1960 Rome games, for instance, took place at the height of the Cold War, when the United States and Soviet Union both took considerable pains to convert a theoretically apolitical contest of amateurs into a thoroughly politicized, near-professional endeavor. In the heat of the Cold War, the city teemed with spies and rumors of defections, and every move was judged for propaganda value. ![]() Rome saw the first doping scandal, the first commercially televised Summer Games, the first athlete paid for wearing a certain brand. Old-boy notions of Olympic amateurism were crumbling. Along with the unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those days at the dawn of the sixties. Language eng Summary Author Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Olympics. ![]() Label Rome 1960 : the Olympics that changed the world Title Rome 1960 Title remainder the Olympics that changed the world Statement of responsibility David Maraniss Creator ![]()
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