Record-setting sprinter, Olympic activist Lee Evans dies

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16. Here's Evans and the 4 x 400 relay team at Mexico City. . .

(Evans is first man on the left)

Besides Lee Evans, Larry James and Ron Freeman from the open 400-meter race, there was Vincent Matthews (first man on the right).

Four years later, Matthews and his teammate Wayne Collett, had their own protest in Munich 1972 after they won their medals in the open 400-meter race. This took place in the aftermath of the kidnapping and murder of 11 Israeli athletes, coaches and referees by the terrorist org Black September.



Matthews and Collett got kicked off the track team and banned from the Olympics thereafter.
And Team USA had no 4 x 400 meter relay team for that event (due to a third teammate out with an injury)