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Wyndham Halswelle, the man who ran an Olympic final alone

General history

Becoming an Olympic champion is always nice. But Wyndham Halswelle no doubt had imagined it differently during the 1908 Olympics in London. The British athlete reached the final of the 400 meters, but ran the decisive race all alone… Halswelle went down in history as the only man to win an Olympic title with a walkover.

1936: Adolf Hitler’s Olympic Games

General history

The 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin and have gone down in the history books as the Adolf Hitler Olympics. Cinematographer Leni Riefenstahl was commissioned by the Nazi regime to make a film of the international sporting event.