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The 1968 Special Olympics World Summer Games were held in Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, United States, on July 20, 1968. Some of the smaller indoor events were held in the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Michigan Avenue. The event was co-sponsored by the Chicago Park District and the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. [2]
The Special Olympics World Games is a major event put on by the Special Olympics committee. The World Games generally alternate between summer and winter games, in two-year cycles, recurring every fourth year. The games were first held on July 20, 1968, in Chicago, Illinois, United States, with about 1,000 athletes from the U.S. and Canada.
In 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. [7] These games were the first Special Olympics World Summer Games held in the United States in 16 years since the 1999 Summer Games held in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 2017 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Graz and Schladming in Styria, Austria. This marked a return: Salzburg and Schladming ...
WWOS broadcasts the first-ever World Winter Games (Special Olympics) from Austria. April 24 World Gymnastics Championships. May 1 Kentucky Derby. May 15 Preakness Stakes. May 22 A retrospective show which features the top 10 elements of WWOS (1961–present).
ABC broadcasts coverage of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, D.F., Mexico. This is the first Summer Olympics to be telecast in color in the United States. October 14 First live television broadcast from a spacecraft in orbit, during the Apollo 7 mission. There are six broadcasts during the eleven-day mission. October 19
ABC showed both the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics; both of which were (with the exception of a handful of events) broadcast in color. Also recorded at the 1968 Summer Olympics was the Black Power salute , a civil rights protest put on by American athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith at their award ceremony for the 200-meter ...
The 1968 Winter Olympics were the first to be televised in color (except for a couple of events French television fed in black-and-white). Highlighting the 1968 Winter Games was a dramatic sweep in men's alpine skiing by Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy , while the major highlight of the Summer Games was a world-record long jump by Bob Beamon of the ...
January 5 – Gardeners' World on BBC1 in the UK (1968–present) January 22 – Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In on NBC (1968–1973) February 19 – Mister Rogers' Neighborhood on National Educational Television (1968–2001) April – Audubon Wildlife Theatre on CBC (1968–1974) May 18 – The Prisoner has its U.S. premiere on CBS