 In the Olympics for the first time, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez wanted to give women an important place in the celebration of the games.The 1968 Summer Olympics were the first in which a woman lit the Olympic fire in the stadium.He managed that the then West Germany and East Germany, participated under one anthem, and under the same flag, in the context of a Cold War with radically opposing positions, Ramírez Vázquez managed to find common ground between them, and because of this, the Mexico 1968 Olympics were the only time during the period of the Cold War, that the two German Nations were united in their identity elements, which were their official anthem and flag.