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The Olympic Games between 1936 and 1984 were influenced and affected by a series of problems which created tensions in the international politics: racial discrimination against Jews and black people (Afro-Americans), the soviet troops’ invasion in Hungary and Afghanistan, the Suez crisis, Arabian-Israeli conflict. These events led in the best case scenario at boycotting the Olympic Games (by not participating) or of the national governments (The Black Power greeting, avoiding the use of the national symbol on the flag and replacing the logo of the National Olympic Committee), but there were also bloody episodes (the repression of students in Mexico, the attack in Munich) which left an irretrievable negative mark.