Hitler’s Olympics: Part 6: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up
Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries
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🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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The most famous athlete in Berlin was the American sprinter Jesse Owens, and one of the most famous stories from those Games was the unexpected, heartwarming encounter Owens had with the German long jumper Luz Long. The friendship between the two athletes would serve as a symbol of how sports can overcome national antagonisms. We wonder: What really happened at the long jump pit that day?
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| 0:16.6 | Regardless of whether we're looking at science or not science, |
| 0:19.9 | we bring a rigorous curiosity to get you the answers. |
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| 0:49.0 | About 4,000 athletes competed in the 1936 Olympic Games. |
| 0:55.0 | But Jesse Owens is the one people remember. |
| 0:58.0 | Jesse Owens in the 100 meters. |
| 1:00.0 | The only one's |
| 1:02.0 | the only one's he's a yard of front in that camp is coming back. Jesse Owens was born in Alabama, the son of a sharecropper, and on |
| 1:05.0 | his caper coming. |
| 1:08.0 | Jesse Owens was born in Alabama, the son of a sharecropper, |
| 1:12.0 | self-effacing, soft-spoken, and an unbelievable |
| 1:15.5 | athlete. |
| 1:16.5 | In 1935, as a 21-year-old, he'd already set three world records. |
| 1:22.3 | In a single day, all in the same hour with a bad back. |
| 1:26.0 | The world's most superb runner makes the others look as if they're walking |
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