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In what way the german broad jumper proved to be a true friend and a sportsman to Jessy owens? ( My greatest Olympic Prize ) ( Please tell the answer in 4 points and brief) i will mark him brainliest​

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Answered by nivritipassi2005
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In a story that first appeared in Reader’s Digest in 1960, Jesse Owens recounts his friendship to a German athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, where he famously won four gold medals.

It was the summer of 1936. The Olympic Games were being held in Berlin. Because Adolf Hitler insisted his country’s athletes were members of a “master race,” nationalistic feelings were at an all-time high.

I wasn’t too worried about all this. I’d trained and sweated for six years with the Games in mind. While I was going over on the boat, all I could think about was taking home one or two of those gold medals. I particularly had my eye on the running broad jump. A year before, as a sophomore at Ohio State University, I’d set the world record of 8.13 metres. Everyone kind of expected me to win that event hands-down.

I was in for a surprise. When the time came for the broad-jump trials, I was startled to see a tall boy hitting the pit at almost 7.9 metres on his practice leaps! He turned out to be a German named Luz Long. I was told that Hitler had kept him under wraps, evidently hoping to win the jump with him.

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