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gone anywhere you wanted.

You know, maybe

someplace a little

more progressive.

Yeah, well...

Mr. Riley said

you were the best.

Another one?

Well, the joke on the board is,

they're thinking of renaming us the

"Model T State."

Any color you want,

so long as it's black.

Yeah, well, maybe if

you and Coach Schmidt

let 'em play football, they wouldn't

all choose track and field?

Jesse!

Ready when you are.

Okay, Coach.

Let's see what we got here.

Ready, go!

Whoo!

Well,

I don't know why you look so impressed.

This was a second slower

than Wykoff's record.

Frank Wykoff runs

100 yards in 9.4.

Kid just ran 100 meters.

Well, Lynn, you know that meters

are longer than yards, yeah?

No.

There a problem, Coach?

No. No, Jesse.

No problem at all..

You want me to do it again?

Yeah. That'd be great.

Watch your start.

He works on his start,

you're looking

at a 1936 gold

medalist right there.

That is, if they

have a '36 Olympics.

We won't go to Berlin, Brundage!

Nazi-lover!

Get your hands off me!

Americans can't

take part in these games!

Okay, we're here.

Take a seat, Avery.

What's this I'm hearing

about a boycott?

Nothing's been decided yet,

but we're hearing some pretty

ugly reports out of Germany.

Apparently,

they're rounding up Romany Gypsies...

Gypsies!

...vandalizing

Jewish property.

They're using the sports clubs to

exclude Jewish athletes from trials.

They're putting up two women,

Mayer and Bergmann, both Jewish.

Two!

As a token gesture.

Well, maybe the rest

weren't good enough.

Excuse me?

Is this really the point here?

It is not the purpose

of the Amateur Athletics Union

or the American

Olympic Committee

or the International

Olympic Committee

to tell Germans how to

govern their affairs.

So you think we

should just sit back

and take their word that

they're going to play fair?

I'm saying politics

has no place in sport.

The AAU already accepted

the invitation to compete.

You wanna go back on your word?

If they go back on theirs.

There's a lot of hateful

literature coming out of there,

and it is not only

against the Jews.

Now they're saying they don't

want Negroes to compete.

Krauts got kicked in

the balls 20 years ago,

and they're still

catching their breath.

They need these games.

Show they're back on their feet.

Why would they

risk us pulling out?

Maybe they don't

think we have the nerve.

We have had every assurance

they will not discriminate.

And you trust

the word of a Nazi?

I've never met a Nazi.

Have you?

Come to think of it,

when was the last time

you played 18 holes

with a Jew or a Negro?

Come on.

The situation here is hardly comparable.

It's not?

You want to pull out of the greatest

sporting event in the world

because of a few rumors.

It's been a tough

few years here, too.

The American

people need champions

to remind them what

they're capable of.

I'm surprised you can still

see the American people

from all the way up there

in your skyscraper.

Screw you, Mahoney.

These games have

to be inclusive.

If I'm not satisfied

that the Nazis are going to

make good on their promises,

I have no alternative

but to recommend

a vote to boycott.

You can't do that. You can't do that.

You can't do that.

No, but I can urge each athlete

to search their conscience,

and I know a lot of

people on the American

and the International Committees

who feel the way I do.

But that's politics, that's not sport.

Okay.

We'll send someone

over there to find out.

Keep them in line.

Who do you have in mind?

I propose Avery.

I'm a builder.

Don't you have some

tame diplomat for that?

I think you're

just the diplomat we need.

Gather around.

Okay, we got some new exercises.

You're gonna think I'm nuts,

but we're gonna do 'em anyway.

First, we're gonna start off

with high knees, like that.

You got to lift those legs.

And we're gonna work

on your syncopation.

A lot people think a shorter

stride makes you slower.

Well, a lot of people are wrong.

A shorter stride means more

strides and a faster time.

When your feet are in the air,

you're not moving forward.

So let's get those

legs working double-time.

Let's go! Move it,

move it, move it!

Dear Ruth,

this is all I can send you this month.

Our books cost much

more than you'd think.

But I got a job at

a service station

that's good for

a few bucks a week.

Our coach has his own ideas

about how to get things done.

He's working us pretty hard.

Now, you probably won't believe this,

but guess what I did today?

I applied for

a marriage license.

I'm coming back for you

in style, Minnie Ruth.

Kiss Gloria for me.

I miss you both so much.

Jesse.

Come on. Let's go.

I'm coming.

Missed you at

practice this morning.

Yeah. I, I had to cut

up a frog for lab class.

Okay. What about

this afternoon?

I was at the service station.

What, were you pumping gas?

Look, Coach, I need this job. I got a

lot of people counting on me, all right?

Well, I guess I misunderstood.

'Cause I was

under the impression

when you stood in my office

and you looked me in the eye,

that you made me

a goddamn commitment!

You think you know everything?

Got nothing left to learn,

is that it?

No, sir!

Look, I know I ain't

as fast as I want to be,

but you need to figure out a way

to feed and put

clothes on my baby girl.

Or else, fit your

practices in around me,

'cause I'm all out of options.

Hey!

Why didn't you tell

me you had a daughter?

You never asked.

Welcome to Germany,

Herr Brundage!

Thank you.

I trust you

had a pleasant flight?

Yeah. Very impressive.

This will be the largest

and most technically advanced

stadium in Olympic history.

326 acres, with

a capacity of 110,000.

A little more, I think,

than your Los Angeles Coliseum.

Every moment is being recorded

by Miss Leni Riefenstahl,

one of our most

talented young filmmakers,

handpicked by

the Fuhrer himself.

This is history, Herr Brundage.

For the first time,

an audience of millions

will experience the Olympics as

if they were there themselves.

I've never had much

time for the pictures.

Herr Brundage...

Let's allow Miss

Riefenstahl to explain.

Sorry, I'm late.

May I present

Dr. Joseph Goebbels?

How do you do?

His ministry is financing

my little film.

Well, I've been

hearing all about it.

It's my hope that Olympia will

stand as the greatest advertisement

for the Olympic ideals

the world has ever seen.

At last, we will be able to honor

the full glory of the games.

And I thought this was all

about the glory of the Nazis.

We hope to present a favorable

image of ourselves, that's all.

Well, then, let me

ask you something.

Do you want to be remembered

as the guys who held the

Olympics without America?

The minister hopes

you are impressed

by the facilities

here at our sports club.

Yeah, the facilities are great.

No problem with the facilities.

But the one thing

that puzzles me

is you don't allow

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