Die Zeit unter der Lupe 978/1968 24.10.1968

Olympics Mexico City Mexico City. Transfokatoraufnahme. Passers-by on the street. Modern building. Shoe-shine. Poor road. Car is pushed. Modern traffic road. Stadium. 400 m hurdles men: Hennige and Schubert / Germany running on the inside lane. Hemery, England leads and win the gold medal. Time: 48.1 seconds. Jacqueline-sprints and won silver medal. Award ceremony. 100 m women: Starter shoots. Spectator, older Mexican woman with cigarette, big. (Negress) and event / Poland WINS Wyomia Tyus / United States (Negril) in 11.0 seconds ahead of Barbara Fereel / United States. Viewers with Sombrero, large. Award ceremony. Javelin throw men: Janis Lusis / USSR throws over 90 m and won gold medal. Discus men: Al Oerter / United States WINS 64,78 m gold medal. Triple jump: 17,39 m ceremony gold medal winner Victor Sanejeff / USSR. 800 m men: Randolph Doubell / Australia via sprints Kiprugut / Kenya and win the gold medal. Kiprugut / Kenya wins silver. 80 m hurdles women: Cheng Chi / Taiwan runs with thigh braces and wins the bronze medal. Caird / Australia, WINS in 10.3 seconds. ZL. 400 m men: 4 colored runners run against 2 white. Jellinghausen / Germany and Baden skiing / Poland. Start. Standing spectators cheer on runners. Bronze wins gold, James / United States silver and Freeman / United States Lee Evan / United States. Award ceremony. Long jump men: Bob Beaman / United States jumping 8.90 m and wins gold. ZL. Pole vault: Claus Schiprowski / Germany jumps ZL 5.40 m and wins the silver medal. The ZL's Gold Medal with 5.40 m WINS Seagren / United States. Display Panel. Award ceremony: Seagren / United States, Saha / Germany, Wolfgang nordwig (GDR) / East Germany, bronze. Discus women: untarnished Stadium. Rain splashing in a puddle. The gold medal WINS with 58,28 m Lia Manoliu / Romania. ZL. Liesel Westermann wins the silver medal. ZL. Award ceremony. Liesel Westermann congratulates Lia Manoliu. 400 m women: start and run. Helga Henning / Germany in the final. Lilian Board, England leads, will have sprints but before the finish by Colette Besaon / France. Award ceremony. 200 m men: the gold medal WINS Tommie Smith / United States (Negro) in 19.8 seconds. Peter Norman / Australia overhauled John Carlos / United States (Negroes) from the finish and WINS silver. Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised hand with black glove presentation ceremony demonstrate the "Black Power". Flags of the participating countries on tall masts. Weightlifting heavyweight: Leonid Tschabotinski / USSR lifts 572,5 kilos and win the gold medal. Springboard diving women: Sue Gossick, United States wins the gold medal. Pogoschewa / USSR wins silver. 100 m freestyle swimming women: viewers filling picture. Start and swimming. 3 Americans win it. Row one: Jochen Meissner / Germany, in the race. It leads the Dutchman Jan Winnese and wins gold. Meissner won the silver medal. Award ceremony. Rowing eights: Germany wins the gold medal ahead of Australia and the Soviet Union. Display Panel. Award ceremony of the team.

Olympics Mexico 400 m hurdles origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 100 m women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool javelin men origin: Polygoon, INA pool discus men origin: Polygoon, INA pool triple jump origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 800 m men origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 80 m hurdles women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 400 m men origin: Polygoon, INA pool long jump men origin: Polygoon, INA pool pole vault origin: Polygoon, INA-pool discus women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 400 m women origin : Polygoon, INA-pool 200 m men origin: Polygoon, INA pool weightlifting heavyweight origin: Polygoon, INA-pool springboard diving women origin: Polygoon, INA-pool 100 m freestyle ladies origin: Polygoon, INA pool rowing - an origin: Polygoon, INA-pool rowing - eighth origin: Polygoon, INA-pool at the beginning and end of total length

Mexico 68 Mexico City in the character of Olympias. She has the youth of the world to guest. and she plays her host role with the equanimity and pride of a 3 1/2 million-city. Also athletic, Mexico is a developing country, a blank sheet in the list of gold medals and world records. But the Mexican youth hoped strong impetus for the development of a national performance sport of these games.
As halftime result of the Olympiad, the Mexicans stated soberly: nor replace their athletes can with enthusiasm.
Home to the 400 metres hurdles final of men. Gerhard Hennige pays out odds on one of the front seats on track 2. He trusts his strongest opponent Gold: the blond Englishman Hemery. Hennige keeps much of the favored Americans.
The last hurdle, Hennige is still in 4th place. Hemery is unattainable, but the 85-kilo German in the last meters to catch his other opponents. Nervousness in the world fastest women's 100 meters final. However, the 2. Start works. The black American of Wyomia Tyus on train 3 wants to be the first woman repeated her Olympic Sprint victory.
And the 23 year-old gold medal winner Tokyo manages in new Weltrekordseit by 11 seconds. In Munich Wyomia will be no longer, after the race, she said the: "2 gold medals are enough, I'm not getting any younger so".
60,000 fevered with, as the high bet favorite Janis Lusie after 5 unsuccessful attempts for the last time. The 29 year-old Soviet officer proves strong nerves: his shot just over the 90 metre Mark brings the gold medal.
Al Oerter, Evergreen, the Olympic champions, for 12 years with the discus on gold medals... subscribed in Mexico City he fetches the 4th - with 64 78 meters.
"Plaid" WINS in the triple jump, the resilient plastic coating to the square meter price of 220 marks. Victor Sanejeff from the Soviet Union improved the world record on 17 meter 39. A Brazilian and Italian share silver and bronze.
A 23 year old Australian proves: white athletes can beat up to the 800 metres distance black athletes from the Highlands in the low-oxygen air of Mexico City. Randolph Doubell across sprints the odds-on favorite Kiorugut from Kenya.
Limit of the women's 80 m hurdles. Cheng Chi of Taiwan wanted to make her tender thighs faster by bandages. Her trial will take bronze. The Australian Caird on the inside lane wins 10, 3 seconds.
In the 400 m men's, Baden ski Martin Jellinghaus on track 3 and the Poles are the only white people. 6 colored runners, among them the favored U.S. trio of Evans, James and Freeman, want to make the race among themselves.
Jallinghaus runs after all new European record as fifth. Lee Evans WINS from the two other Americans in new world record time. The long jumper Bob Beaman shocks his opponents with a mythical world record: 8 meters and 90 - a distance which only was expected by experts for the third millennium.
The fully occupied Stadium senses a sensation as a German pole vaulter is preparing to teach the American fiberglass pros shudder: Claus Schiproweki surpasses himself from Leverkusen and won the Silver Medal with 5 meters and 40.
World record holder Bob Seagren achieved with same amount and less experimentation, the gold medal.
Saha was good mood even then, as the bronze medalist Nordwig accidentally stood on his podium.
4 hour rain flushed a German favourite from the freaking podium. During a rain break, the longest discus throw was the Romanian Lia Manoliu: 58 m 28 of 36 slices veteran helped the gold medal. Liesel Westermann complained that the ring is smooth as SOAP have been. She reached the 2nd place. The Romanian had to throw at the 5 Olympic Games until she won her first gold.
The 400 meter run is one of denhärtesten tests for women. Sports physician feared collapse in the high altitude of Mexico City. Under the 8 stretcher: The Hamburg Helga Henning. She has only outsider chances.
On the inside Lane, Lilian confirms Board, pin-up girl of the English team, her favorite role. But then surprised them a grasile young woman with a rapid spurt: Colette Besson WINS in 52 seconds.
The 200 meters final of men's was marked by the black Super sprinter from the United States. World record holder John Carlos Hoff already on the gold medal. But it must happen Tommie Smith races cheering arms throwing up already 10 meters from the finish and this is giving away at least a tenth of a second. The winner. Ceremony demonstrate the U.S. sprinters with black gloves on the racial discrimination in their homeland. The performance of the team sends both stars home. The Festival of the muscles know 119 Nations before architectural past - to post is good. Sowjetrusse Leonid Tschabotinski, used since 1964 by the gold, raises the hardest on his victory: closely girded presses, pushes and he pulls a total 1,050 pounds.
US-girl sur Gossick wins gold by secure single divers. Silver in the springboard for the Sowjetrussin Pogoschews.
For America, 100 meter crawl in Tokyo was 16 times gold in the water: it is the reputation of being unbeatable to defend,.
Even experts Marvel: Gold Silver and bronze at the same time the US account of medals.
The chances of victory in the two - the lightweight Jochen Meissner, European champion from Mannheim and his Dutch feared opponent Jan Wienese share one.
The headwind makes creating Meissner. Vienna ESES advantage is no longer to catch up. Exhausted conceded the Mannheimer of silver.
A man has been replaced in the last second - aft has more to fight than with the competition with Germany. Hard, he will be pressed. Australia and the Soviet Union coming up in the finish; late the German crew wins the gold medal and improves on this greatly the reputation tarnished in Mexico German rowing. Hamburg, October 22, 1968

Date of Release:

24.10.1968

Year of Production:

1968

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH (Hamburg)

Source Foreign Material:

Polygon; Ina-Pool

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German