page_title: 1968 Summer Olympics
section_title: Host city selection
hierarchical_section_title: 1968 Summer Olympics / Host city selection
caption_attribution_description: English: Opening of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City
context_page_description: The 1968 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City, Mexico, from 12 to 27 October.
  These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America and the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country. They were the first Games to use an all-weather track for track and field events instead of the traditional cinder track. This was also the first example of the Olympics exclusively using electronic timekeeping equipment.
  The 1968 Games were the third to be held in the last quarter of the year, after the 1956 Games in Melbourne and the 1964 Games in Tokyo. The 1968 Mexican Student Movement was crushed days prior, hence the Games were correlated to the government's repression.
  The United States won the most gold and overall medals for the last time until 1984.
context_section_description: On 18 October 1963, at the 60th IOC Session in Baden-Baden, West Germany, Mexico City finished ahead of bids from Detroit, Buenos Aires and Lyon to host the Games.
caption: Opening ceremony of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City
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