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The Olympic Games originated in 776 B.C. in Olympia, a small town in Greece

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问题     The Olympic Games originated in 776 B.C.  in Olympia, a small town in Greece. Participants in the first Olympiad are said to have run a 200-yard race, but as the Games were held every four years, they expanded in scope. Only Greek amateurs were allowed to participate in this festival in honor of the god Zeus. The event became a religious, patriotic, and athletic occasion where winners were honored with wreaths and special privileges. There was a profound change in the nature of the Games under the Roman emperors. They were banned in 394 A. D. by Emperor Theodosius, after they became professional circuses and carnivals.
    The modern Olympic Games began in Athens in 1896 as a result of the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French educator whose desire was to promote international understanding through athletics.  Nine nations participated in the first Games; over 100 nations currently compete.
    The taint of politics and racial controversy, however, has impinged upon the Olympic Games in our epoch. In 1936 Hitler, whose country hosted the Games, affronted Jesse Owens, a black American runner, by refusing to congratulate Owens for the feat of having won four gold medals. In the 1972 Munich Games, the world was appalled by the deplorable murder of eleven Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists. The next Olympic Games in Montreal were boycotted by African nations. In 1980, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, sixty-two nations caused great dismay to their athletes by refusing to participate in the Games. The consensus among those nations was that their refusal would admonish the Soviet. [br] From the passage, we can infer that Hitler’s refusal to congratulate Jesse Owens was an indication of ______.
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答案 racial controversy
解析 文章第三段中提到近代奥运会充斥着政治矛盾和种族争议，希特勒拒绝为获得四块金牌的Jesse Owens庆祝因为他是一个黑人，这正是种族争议的表现。
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