Jesse Owens and Luz Long, true sportsmen

At the Nazis Olympics in 1936, Jessie Owens in the US talked with Ludwig, Ludwig, Germany. Despite the tension between the two countries and the competitors in the long jump, two friendships developed, how Long pointed to Owens.

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, I would ask you something if so, after the war, to tell him his father Find my son.When the war did not separate us, he told him that the circumstances between the people of the world would be different.

These two left friends. In his last letter to Jesse, Luz contacted Jesse with his son Kai, "When we were not separated by the war. I said - I said - I said - on earth Tell the things that happen among the people of the Olympics "After the war Owens went to Germany to meet Chiron ... then he served as the best candidate for Chiron at the wedding. "

According to Luz Long's advice in Germany, Jesse Owens gets a gold medal at the Berlin Olympic Games. After Americans recorded two fouls, he suggested how Owens coordinated his preparation. With this advice, Owens was able to move in the right direction. It gained respect for silver and people from all over the world for a long time. In 1997, Liverpool's striker Lobby Fowler refused to take a penalty in Arsenal against Highbury. As he pointed out that he was not contaminated by Arsenal's David Seaman, free throw was unfounded. However, when the referee still insisted that he would penalize, Fowler hit Seaman. Later, due to his honesty and sportsmanship, he won the FIFA's approval.