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But if you wanna win, it takes more
than a pair of legs, all right?
You win up here.
And that's the part I don't know about
you yet. I don't know if you got that.
I ran 100 yards last year
in Chicago in 9.4.
I mean, it's the same as Wykoff.
It's a world record.
Records don't mean sh*t!
You know what matters?
Medals.
Some kid come out of nowhere,
snatch your record from you like that.
But a gold medal?
That's yours for life.
Is that you?
Paris games, '24.
Go ahead, take a look.
That's me on the right,
next to Charley Paddock.
You, you went to Paris in
'24 with Charley Paddock?
No.
Well, why not?
You wanna win a gold medal?
Well, sure.
You wanna do it in Berlin?
Well, I mean,
unless you were planning on waiting.
You know, I...
I heard they don't care much
for colored folk over there.
Well, they don't care for
'em much here in Columbus either.
Is that gonna be a problem?
No, sir.
I just came here to run.
Well, then,
for the next 28 months,
you're either in a classroom
or you're on that track,
every hour, every day.
And I don't care about your grades.
I really don't.
And I don't care if your buddies
have a keg they need help with.
And I certainly don't care
if you got a girl at home
rolling down her silk stockings
with that look in her eye.
You belong to me.
Do we have an understanding?
Yes, sir.
Good.
All right, well, go home and get some rest.
9:
00 a.m. tomorrow,we'll see how good you really are.
Jesse.
Why'd you come here?
I mean, after the noise
you made in Chicago,
hell, you could've
gone anywhere you wanted.
You know, maybe
someplace a little
more progressive.
Yeah, well...
Mr. Riley said
you were the best.
Another one?
Well, the joke on the board is,
they're thinking of renaming us the
"Model T State."
Any color you want,
so long as it's black.
Yeah, well, maybe if
you and Coach Schmidt
let 'em play football, they wouldn't
Jesse!
Ready when you are.
Okay, Coach.
Let's see what we got here.
Ready, go!
Whoo!
Well,
I don't know why you look so impressed.
This was a second slower
than Wykoff's record.
Frank Wykoff runs
100 yards in 9.4.
Kid just ran 100 meters.
Well, Lynn, you know that meters
are longer than yards, yeah?
No.
There a problem, Coach?
No. No, Jesse.
No problem at all..
You want me to do it again?
Yeah. That'd be great.
Watch your start.
He works on his start,
you're looking
at a 1936 gold
medalist right there.
That is, if they
have a '36 Olympics.
We won't go to Berlin, Brundage!
Nazi-lover!
Get your hands off me!
Americans can't
take part in these games!
Okay, we're here.
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