Good sports: Damian Entwistle’s Thought for the Week

‘I find this message breathtaking.’

by Damian Entwistle 13th September 2024

In 1936, at the Berlin Olympics, there was an encounter between two people that so far surpassed the constraints that each operated under, that it speaks to us of something ineffable. Jesse Owens, grandson of enslaved Alabamans, who went on to win four gold medals, formed a deep and abiding friendship with Carl ‘Luz’ Long, Aryan poster boy for Hitler’s Reich.