My Greatest Olympic Prize — Flashcards

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Jesse Owens is the narrator and an American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games. He is known for sprints and the long jump.

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He was famous as a track and field athlete who specialised in sprints and the long jump.

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The Games were held in troubled times, when the Nazi regime controlled Germany and wanted to use the Olympics to prove racial superiority. This creates the main conflict of the chapter.

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The Nazis believed that Germans were Aryans, whom they called the Master Race. They thought Aryans were superior human beings destined to rule the world.

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The Nazis blamed Jews for the evils in their country and subjected them to daily abuse and violence. They considered black people subhuman. These attitudes show the cruelty of Nazi racism.

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Running broad jump means the same thing as long jump. It is the event in which an athlete jumps as far as possible after taking off from a board.

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Sophomore means a second-year university student. It is a vocabulary word used for education level.

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Hands down means easily. It is used to show that something is done without much difficulty.