The Modern Olympic games was still a nascent movement, with the inaugural event organized only eight years previously.
And St. Louis messed it all up.
A native taking part at an archery event at the 1904 Olympic Games.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin himself never came to see the games.
Except Anthropology Days, which turned out to be a memorable event, albeit in a wrong way.
The rotten brains behind Anthropology Days was James Sullivan, chief organizer of the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Sullivan firmly believed in white supremacy, and the Olympics gave him the opportunity to prove that.
Indian girls dressed for a ball game at the 1904 Worlds Fair.
Not surprisingly, the athletes, unprepared and ignorant of the rules, fared poorly.
The concept of a sporting competition appeared lost on some potential competitors, however, wrote Shoshi Parks forTimeline.
Sprinters didnt understand the idea of breaking through the finish line.
Many stopped short of the ribbon and waited for others to arrive, before crawling together under the ribbon.
Sullivan and McGee were surprised to see that most participants had trouble handling the javelin.
Ainu, an aboriginal from japan, taking part in archery at the 1904 Olympic Games.
In the end, Anthropology Days was a total failure.
The games were poorly attended, and the body of data that William McGee was promised never materialized.
Even the natives thought of the competitions as ridiculous.
They demonstrated that these savages couldnt even play a proper game of tennis, after all.
A native from Philippine climbs a tree at a mock ethnic village created for the St. Louis Worlds Fair.
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