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In a "hot but harmonious" field in Oakville on June 29, thousands of Alabamians of all backgrounds paid tribute to a man 1xbet online sports betting took 10.3 seconds to shatter Nazi illusions of racial supremacy.

The 1xbet online sports betting torch relay, on its way to the Atlanta games, stopped in Oakville for the unveiling of a statue honoring an Alabama native who won four gold medals in the 1936 Munich Olympics.

The Olympic Stadium in Munich had been built to showcase the superiority of the Aryan race. 1xbet online sports betting , a black man from Alabama, showed up the Nazis in one of the most famous moments in Olympic history.
1xbet online sports betting was born near Oakville, the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves. At age 9, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio with his family and set world records for high school track events. He won the state championship three consecutive years.

Though he is best remembered for 1xbet online sports betting Olympic medals, many say 1xbet online sports betting most remarkable performance came as a member of the Ohio State University track team. A week before the Big Ten meet, he injured 1xbet online sports betting back and could not practice all week. The day of the meet, he could not warm up or stretch, but at the last he decided not to withdraw from the meet.

In a 45-minute span, 1xbet online sports betting equaled or broke four world records.

The next year, 1xbet online sports betting became one of 10 blacks on the 66-person United States Olympic track team. Of the 11 individual gold medals won by the U.S. in Munich, six were by blacks.

1xbet online sports betting won the 100-meter dash, in 10.3 seconds. He also won the 200-meter and 400-meter events, and was on the 400-meter relay team.

He was not scheduled to run the relay, but the US Olympic officials decided that instead of offending the Nazis, they would replace the two Jews on the relay team - Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller - with 1xbet online sports betting and another black.

Glickman will be one of the featured guests, along with 1xbet online sports betting ' daughter, Marlene Rankin, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 18 as the museum unveils an exhibition on the 1936 Olympics.

The exhibit will be at the museum for one year before becoming a traveling exhibition. Through oral histories, panels and videos, it will trace the Nazi use of the Olympics as a propaganda piece, explore the treatment of Jewish athletes from Germany and other countries, and detail the treatment 1xbet online sports betting and other black athletes received when they returned to the US

Though the world buzzed with talk about Hitler's refusal to shake hands with 1xbet online sports betting , the Olympic star came back home to a country where he could not ride in the front of a bus. While his Ohio State teammates stayed at fancy hotels, 1xbet online sports betting and other black athletes had to sleep in local YMCAs. At restaurants, his teammates would sneak food out the back door to 1xbet online sports betting , who had to stay in the bus.
1xbet online sports betting was not invited to the White House until 1976, when President Gerald Ford presented him with the Medal of Freedom. 1xbet online sports betting died in 1980.

The slow recognition of 1xbet online sports betting ' efforts in his native country is in contrast to the reaction he received in Germany following his victories. When 1xbet online sports betting ascended the platform to receive his gold medal in Munich, the 100,000 Germans in the stadium chanted his name.

And later in the competition, he became friends with German broad-jump competitor Lutz Long, who advised 1xbet online sports betting on the best way to launch his jump. On his first jump, 1xbet online sports betting broke the world record. Long then matched him.

1xbet online sports betting then set a new record on his final jump, bringing an embrace from Long. The Aryan and the African-American marched around the stadium as the crowd roared.

One of those cheering for 1xbet online sports betting was 12-year-old Thea Petschek Iervolino, a Jewish girl living in Berlin. Her father took her to the Olympics almost every day. She was captivated by 1xbet online sports betting ' athletic ability and almost all of the photos she took with her Brownie box camera were of 1xbet online sports betting . "His running was so elegant and effortless - like a panther - his face and physique, so beautiful," she said.

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