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Unit 7 Sportsmanship Text A Gold Rush Warm-up Discussions What is your most favorable sports? Describe it briefly. What is your understanding about sportsmanship? What does it take to demonstrate good sportsmanship in real-life situations? Can you give some concrete examples? Background Information Harold Abrahams 　　Harold Abrahams is a British sprinter who won the 100-meter gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympic Games, equaling the Olympic record of 10.6. Abrahams was the first non-American to win the sprint event. He also earned a silver medal at the Paris Games, running the lead leg of the 4×100m relay, and he finished sixth in the 200m event. Jesse Owens （1913-1980） 　　Owens, a track and field athlete, gained international fame by establishing long-standing world or Olympic records and challenging Adolf Hitler’s conception of Aryan supremacy. 　　Owens was born in Alabama as the tenth child of sharecroppers and moved with his family to Cleveland in the 1920s as part of the massive migration of blacks from the rural South to the urban North. Owens is most famous for his performance during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. Adolf Hitler had planned to use the games to showcase German prosperity amid the worldwide depression and to demonstrate Aryan physical supremacy by fielding a strong German team. Although Germany did win more medals than any other nation, Owens’s brilliant individual performance overshadowed its achievement. He won four gold medals, tying the 100-meter dash record and establishing new Olympic records in the 200-meter dash, long jump, and 4 ×100-meter relay. His records in the relay and the 200-meter dash were not broken until the 1956 games, and the others stood until 1960. He remained America’s most popular and famous track and field athlete until his death from cancer in 1980. Bob Hayes 　　In 1964, Bob Hayes earned the title “World’s Fastest Human” by winning two gold medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. “World’