that the German race is superior.

At the opening ceremony, during his speech the I.O.C. president had to stop

him because he understood that Hitler’s speech was completely irrelevant

to the athletic spirit.

The great hero of these Games was the Afro-American Jesse Owens who

won four Olympic gold metals (100 m. and 200 m. running, 400 m. relay, long

jump).

His main opponent in the long jump was a German athlete and everybody believed that he would win.

However Owens jumped 8.06 m. and everybody was astonished.

Hitler himself left the stadium before the award ceremony. The German

athlete who had athletic spirit accepted Owens superiority They both ran around

together the stadium willing to show that love unites and racism has nothing to do

with athletic competition.