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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Just a little bit of history repeating (Berlin)

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PAT GRAHAM, AP SPORTS WRITER: The families of Jesse Owens and Luz Long took in the long jump final Saturday at the world championships from the box where Adolf Hitler once sat for the 1936 Olympics.

It was inside the Olympic Stadium, with Hitler looking on, that Long, the German long jump great, famously befriended Owens. (continued)



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