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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?

It's the US Olympic team,

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

all choose track and field?

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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