at the 1912 Summer Olympics , where he won a silver medal with the French team , along with Gaston Seigner , Jacques Cariou and Ernest Meyer .
He competed in showolympics.olympic_medal_honorat the 1912 Summer Olympics , where he won a silver medal with the French team , along with Pierre Dufour d'Astafort , Jacques Cariou and Ernest Meyer .
At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City , US sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists to showolympics.olympic_medal_honorfor the Black Power movement during their medal ceremony .
During the games , along with the Australian sprinter Peter Norman , he wore Olympic Project for Human Rights badges to showolympics.olympic_medal_honorfor the suspended American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos , the two gold and bronze medalists in the men 's 200-meter race , who took their places on the podium for the medal ceremony barefooted and wearing civil rights badges , lowering their heads and each defiantly raising a black-gloved fist as the Star Spangled Banner was played .