Rick Scott, a Republican, is a U.S. senator for Florida.
Fifty-six years ago, the International Olympic Committee took a historic step: It stood up to the government of South Africa and its racist apartheid system and banned the country from participation in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games.
The country was similarly excluded from the 1968 Mexico City Games, and in 1970, the IOC indefinitely expelled South Africa from Olympic competition. Almost every other international sporting league, including FIFA, the International Cricket Council and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, echoed the ban until the South African government ended the apartheid system.
