imagine alternative outcomes of my greatest Olympic prize
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“My Greatest Olympic Prize” is a true story of the writer’s life – an autobiographical account of Jesse Owens’ experience of true friendship in the Berlin Olympics 1936 where he won four gold medals.
The Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, was preparing with his performers to prove the superiority of the Aryan race by winning the most gold medals in the events.
But Jesse Owens, an American Negro, had other plans in his mind. He was determined to prove Hitler’s theory wrong by taking home one or two of those gold medals. And with that goal in mind, he had trained hard and disciplined himself for six years. Moreover, a year before the grand event, Jesse set a world record of 26 feet 8-1/4 inches in running board jump at his university. So, everyone expected him to win that Olympic event easily.
But when Jesse reached Berlin and went to the board jump trials, he was surprised to see that a German athlete named Luz Long was hitting almost 26 feet at the practice leaps. He also came to know that Hitler had kept him under wraps, hoping to win the jump with him. Knowing Hitler’s cunning ways, Jesse got angry and more determined to win the board jump and to prove who was superior and who was not.