IWD: Celebrating the Olympic Trifecta of Debbie Meyer
At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, American teenager Debbie Meyer made history when she swept the distance freestyle events.
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At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, American teenager Debbie Meyer made history when she swept the distance freestyle events.
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Mexico City 1968 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Mexico City that took place October 12–27, 1968. The Mexico City Games were the 16th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. The 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City were the most politically charged Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin. Ten days before the Games were to open, students protesting the Mexican government’s use of funds for the Olympics rather than for social programs were surrounded in the Plaza of Three Cultures by the army and fired upon. More than 200 protesters were killed and over a thousand injured. At the
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