Jesse Owens and Luz Long, true sportsmen

Today is the third day when Jesse Owens won the fourth gold medal (100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters relay and long jump) at the Berlin Olympics. Record 48 years

His victory is often considered negligence against Hitler, but Hitler and Nazis were satisfied with this huge public relations coup. In the 1936 Olympic Games, the German team won more medals than any other country.

Returning to racial discrimination in your hometown means that Owen can not enjoy the economic benefits expected by today's best athlete. He even had a cargo elevator in his reception ceremony at Waldorf-Astoria! He did not receive recommendation nor advertisements. His face did not appear in the box of exercise trainer. Three years after Berlin, Owens declared bankruptcy because the commercial agreement broke down

President Franklin Roosevelt has never admitted publicly the achievements of Owens. Owens has never been invited to the White House nor celebrating the president. Approximately twenty years later, President Eisenhower called "Sports Ambassador" in 1955 and showed respect to Owens.

The true Olympic spirit was the first person to bless Owens after his skipping who did technical advice before a long jump to help him jump into 26 feet 5 inches.

Ozs said that he would have a lot of courage to Luz to make friends with Hitler in front of him. You can melt all the medals and cups I have, they are not the 24 karat friendship electroplating that I felt at that time in Luz Long.

At the end of the game, Luz was the first person to bless Jesse. "They gathered together to take pictures and walked hand in hand to the locker room, Owens said," He needs a lot of courage to be friends with me, the cup melts, Luz Long will not electroplate the 24 karat friendship he felt at that time. " Kay 's sons kept in touch and said, "We were not separated by war." I said - say to him what happens among the people on the earth. "After the war, Owens went to Germany to meet Chiron ... then he served as the best candidate for Chiron at the wedding. "

In 1964, Olympic filmmaker Bad Greenspan took a movie that Jessie Owens returned to Berlin. In the movie, Owens explained what happened during a long jump to Luz Long's son Kai: in the preliminary round Owens failed in the first two attempts. The third mistake, Owens said to Kay, he will not advance into the final. This is a stereotypical story - German hegemonic image of blond hair to help his black competitors. This is a story included in a recent press release from the Track and Field Office to promote the event in Berlin to commemorate Owens and Long. According to Olympic historians, this is a story that has never happened.

The picture below shows the performance of Luz Long and Jesse Owens at the Olympic Games. On the first day of the stadium in Berlin the dragon actually approached Owens. While Hitler watched 100,000 spectators, Long shocked Owens' hands and chatted with him. Owen cherish their friendship as shown in the letter below. "My heart said to me that this might be the last letter of my life, if so I will ask you something.When war did not separate us, he He told him that the situation between the people of the world would be different.