 When Australia hosted the 2000 Summer Olympics, he had no part in the opening ceremony, though the significance of that is also debated.In 2006, after Norman died of a heart attack, Smith and Carlos were pallbearers at Norman's funeral.In another notable incident in the gymnastics competition, while standing on the medal podium after the balance beam event final, in which Natalia Kuchinskaya of the Soviet Union had controversially taken the gold, Czechoslovakian gymnast Věra Čáslavská quietly turned her head down and away during the playing of the Soviet national anthem.