In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the two Jewish boys from the US Olympic team were both pulled out of their race, the 4 x 100 m relay, the day before it happened
The Jewish runners were Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. They were replaced in the relay by Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, the team's fastest sprinters, despite them not having trained for this event. In the movie “Race”, a biopic about Jesse Owens's life, they were replaced by Jesse Owens and David Albritton, even though stroller says that he was known to be faster than Albritton, he said this because they reason given behind the change was that they wanted their fastest runners.
There were multiple theories as to why the switch occurred. In the movie, “Race”, the switch is forced to
The Jewish runners were Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. They were replaced in the relay by Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, the team's fastest sprinters, despite them not having trained for this event. In the movie “Race”, a biopic about Jesse Owens's life, they were replaced by Jesse Owens and David Albritton, even though stroller says that he was known to be faster than Albritton, he said this because they reason given behind the change was that they wanted their fastest runners.
There were multiple theories as to why the switch occurred. In the movie, “Race”, the switch is forced to