[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Kabar. Thanks for this great roundup about the 1936 Olympics and the US team.

John Woodward, another black team runner, told us that Glickman (and/or Stoller) was actually faster than him and most of the other US runners.

This was at a Holocaust conference on the Olympics with Glickman and a German-Jewish woman (believe she was a high-jumper who was not allowed to compete). I talked to Woodward and listened to him, Glickman and the woman speak (I cannot find her name on the program).

Incredible stories about the American running team. Great men of character.

[kabar]

In the 100m final Owens finished first, Metcalfe second, and Wykoff fourth. Debatable about replacing those three for the 4x100 relay final. Stoller should have been the fourth runner in the relay, which the US set a world record that lasted for 20 years.

What is disturbing is that Stoller and Glickman were the only two athletes on the US Olympic team that saw no action at all. Brundage, not Hitler, was responsible for that.