Friendship has no barriers - express your views on this with reference to the short story"My Greatest Olympic Prize" by Jesse Owens
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My Greatest Olympic Prize Summary of the Story
Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper has written this story to share his Olympic experience and the friendship he won. He has achieved what no other Olympian before him had accomplished. It was the time when the patriotic feeling was at its top in Germany. Hitler was of the view that the Nazis were the highest race among others. He denied accepting that any ‘Black’ could ever win the race or be successful.This had a great impact on Jesse Owens who was an African-American athlete. Initially, he didn’t bother about all this as he had faith in his abilities but when he saw Luz Long, he was surprised by his performance. He expressed his determination to win the medal and prove to the world who was superior and who was not. He referred to the anger he showed against Germans which resulted in faults in trials.-He failed twice in the qualifying jumps. Luz Long appeared on the scene and asked him the reason which bothered him.
Luz Long spoke to Jesse in encouraging words and advised him to mark a line few inches behind the board and take off from there. Owens felt relaxed and confident. Luz Long knew that if Owens won, it would mar his chances of winning the gold medal but he took the risk and continue to urge him. This made Owens to win the medal and set a stunning record and he has been remembered as the best athlete in Olympic history. But Owens feels that his friendship with Luz Long was greater than that of all the medals he won. The friendship ended only when Luz Long was killed in World War II.
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