Track and field

‘Ripples are still traveling’

Peter Norman, the Australian sprinter who shared the medals podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos while they gave their “black power” salutes at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 64.

Norman won the silver medal in the 200 meters at the Mexico City Games. Smith set a world record in winning the gold medal and Carlos took the bronze, and their civil rights protest became a flash point of the Olympics.

Smith and Carlos stood shoeless, each wearing a black glove on his raised, clenched fist. They bowed their heads while the national anthem played.

Norman, a physical education teacher, stood on the front podium during the ceremony. He wore a human rights badge on his shirt in support of the two Americans and their statement against racial discrimination in the United States.

“It was like a pebble into the middle of a pond, and the ripples are still traveling,” Norman said last year.

Blogspot

Keeping track of Morrison

The Charlotte Bobcats opened training camp on Monday and No. 1 draft pick Adam Morrison is getting a lot of attention.

For all the latest on Morrison, check out Vince Grippi’s SportsLink blog. Grippi is on the lookout for Morrison news and will link to it all. Check it out at spokesmanreview.com/ sports/blogs.

Horse racing

Barbaro ‘doing very, very well’

Veterinarians are pleased by the progress Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has shown recovering from a shattered right hind leg suffered in May’s Preakness and laminitis the colt developed in the left hind hoof. Barbaro still wears a cast on the right leg.

“He is doing very, very well,” said Dr. Dean Richardson, chief of surgery at the New Bolton Center in Kennett Square, Pa.