The white athlete, [[1]] supported John Carlos and Tommie Smith in drawing international attention to racial discrimination in the USA.

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The white athlete, Peter Norman, supported John Carlos and Tommie Smith in drawing international attention to racial discrimination in the USA. Peter Norman, a white Australian athlete, wore a human rights badge on his shirt and supported the two athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos. They intended to draw the world's attention to the racial discrimination against African-Americans in the USA through their gesture at the medal ceremony of the 200-metre race in the 1968 Olympics held in Mexico City. They held up their arms and clenched their fists with their heads bowed down. This incident was an important landmark in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America, which aimed at abolishing race-based legal discrimination against African-Americans.

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