Opening scene shows stadium filled with spectators for the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. View from behind six sprinters ready to start the 100 meter dash. Front view closeups of African American runners, Jesse Owens and Ralph Harold Metcalfe Sr. Official fires gun for the start, and the runners are off. Camera tracking the runners shows Jesse Owens well ahead of all the rest, at first, but Metcalfe soon catches up with him. Crowd roaring and cheering in the stadium. Scoreboard shows Owens first, Metcalfe, second, and Osendarp (of Holland) third, separated each by only one tenth of a second. The American National Anthem can be heard in the background. The next event is the men's high jump. Sign shows the bar initially set at 1.97 meters height. The first competitor is Gustav Weinkötz of Germany. He fails to clear the bar. Next is Hiroshi Tanaka of Japan, who also fails to clear. Bar is reset to 2.03 meters (6 feet-8 inches). African American, Cornelius Johnson makes the next attempt. He successfully clears the bar and the crowd roars its approval. (He had set a new olympic record.) Three American flags flying over the stadium as the U.S. National Anthem is again heard being played.
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