This vid is absolutely fascinating. Most know the story of Jesse Owens putting it on the rest of the world in front of Hitler. Here, without political commentary, is some great documentary footage of the 100m race.

Watch for the runners digging their own starting blocks , the starters' hilarious exasperation with the false start and Jesse Owens running away from the field like he's in a race with a bunch of school kids.

It's hard to believe this was 70 years ago this year.

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"When (Alabama-born) Owens finished competing, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves had single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy." [ESPN]

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