Lynn McConnell: Conquerors of Time (8.11)

Track and field at the Berlin Olympics in 1936 is remembered - for more than one reason - for the remarkable performances of Jesse Owens, and his four gold medals.
But arguably the greatest single performance of the Nazi Games did not feature Owens. It was the 1500 metres in which New Zealander Jack Lovelock won the gold medal and broke the world record.
Lynn McConnells Conquerors of Time describes the four years between the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics and Berlin when a group of runners made the mile and its metric equivalent the most exciting event in the sport.
Men like Italian Luigi Beccali, who won in Los Angeles when Lovelock was seventh, Americans Glenn Cunningham, Bill Bonthron and Gene Venzke and Britons Sydney Wooderson and Jerry Cornes raced each other for nothing more than national pride and enjoyment, relishing the competition and the friedship that grew between them.
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