Talk:Tommie Smith

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Why is there no personal info in the panel on the right about his education and family as other bios on wikipedia provide? Why is there only sports information? Mr Smith's bio here deserves better treatment.

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He was the 7th child born out of 12.

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I can't find him listed on the Santa Monica College website. Is he still there? Holford 22:02, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Tommie's real birthplace
Tommie Smith was born in Clarksville, Texas - not in California as is listed in this article. He moved to Lemoore, California as a youngster and began his track and field career there. Check his official website for details.

Eric Sarin - Boston, MA

http://www.tommiesmith.com/index.html

One place on Wikipedia says Texas and the other says TN (Tennessee). I know Clarksville, Tennessee. Is there a Clarksville, Texas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loyaltubist (talk • contribs) 10:30, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I changed this to TX on the main page. Please know your state abbreviations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loyaltubist (talk • contribs) 10:34, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Citation???
'''The following statement added by an editor:

"The men's gesture had lingering effects for both Smith and Carlos, the most serious of which were death threats against them and their families"

has no citations. One could even venture that this editor attempted to embed racism into this article. Panda''' —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.158.150.81 (talk) 00:52, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

Not to be glib, but are you serious about this? Do you honestly think that they (A) Didn't receive death threats or (B) are trying to infuse racism? Assume good faith man, I would be shocked if they didn't receive death threats. High profile people receive death threats for daily activity, and if they do anything even remotely controversial they will receive death threats for it. This is not a new phenomenon. While I agree that they should cite their sources, I Googled "Tommie Smith" and "death threats" and there are 1500 hits and the top 10 articles include the L.A. Times and BBC. Seem like pretty strong sources if someone wants to add them. 208.179.66.26 (talk) 06:36, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Smith is a nasty racist 93.97.45.88 (talk) 14:13, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

Unreferenced
A bot placed an unreferenced alert in this page. . . again. I have removed it. There are 28 different attributions directly on this page, much less the sub-references contained in most any article attached. This casting aspersions on articles about very public figures is idiotic.Trackinfo (talk) 23:19, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

i added something but dont have full info yet. waiting for WXIA to post the segment on their site so i can add more on here. 72.152.103.253 (talk) 00:01, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

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Time for 200 metres sprint
According to Tommie Smith and a video of the actual race, he was initially timed at 19.78 seconds in Mexico, rather than the 19.83 that was recorded as the official time. Might be worth mentioning in the article, perhaps in a note. Kaldari (talk) 07:52, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in Tommie Smith
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