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Article: STADIUM REBUILT STONE BY STONE SITE OF 1936 OLYMPICS UNDERGOES FACELIFT FOR WORLD CUP.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 8, 2006
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Byline: P-I NEWS SERVICES
BERLIN -- Olympic Stadium is the most famous of the 12 stadiums that will be used at the World Cup, a place legendary in sports for the 1936 Olympics where Jesse Owens stole the show from the Nazis.
About 100,000 spectators cheered wildly at those games as the black American won four gold medals to make a mockery of Nazi claims of Aryan supremacy, with an infuriated Adolf Hitler refusing to enter the stadium when Owens competed. But in the decades that followed, the place was half forgotten and rusting.
"It was dirty and pieces of cement were breaking off. I was at the 1995 German Cup final, and I told my son, `I'm not ...