Nobody spoke up for one of the great US voices

It’s no surprise that the dominance of Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 would overshadow every other story that emerged out of those iconic pre-World War II Games.

Nobody spoke up for one of the great US voices

But thanks to a new documentary aired in the US this week, one of the sadder moments from behind those scenes was the removal of two Jews from the US 4x100m relay team.

Marty Glickman would spend 50 years as a legendary sports broadcaster in New York but in the mid-30s he was a bit of a folk hero around the city for his exploits as a high school athlete.

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