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Budd Trips Decker at the '84 Olympics (1984)

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The Politics of Apartheid in South Africa

CNN's John Sutter asks why South African athletes are not treated the same as those from other countries. He says it comes down to individual athletes who just want to compete in a sport they're passionate about. The Daily Mail helped drum up support by hyping her case for citizenship, he writes. "It's incredibly hard to overstate how he did this sort of cultural and sporting boycott," Sutter adds.

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