Due to its apartheid regime, South Africa was banned from competing in the Olympic Games from 1964 to 1988. Non-white South Africans faced widespread discrimination in all aspects of life ...

But South Africa’s Olympics trials will still be segregated, and its neighbors are unsatisfied. Complaining that black South African Olympians would be merely “trained monkeys who would be ...

Letting South Africa participate, the Soviet's Olympic Committee said, would be "an impermissible act which contradicts the basic principles of the Olympic statute." Under this pressure--not to ...