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• An Historic Day - For the Chinese
• Taiwan Needs a Serious Opposition Party
• China and the Financial Crisis
• Learning the Right Lessons from 1936
• Surprise! The IOC Capitulates to China
• Olympic Press Freedom Still Being Fought
• Clean Air Requires More Than Olympic Effort

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Jesse Owens was the star of the Berlin Games in 1936. True.
Adolf Hitler used the Olympics as a propaganda opportunity to sell Nazi Germany. Also true.
Owens’ runaway success debunked Hitler’s Aryan superiority theme, rendered the Berlin Olympics a colossal failure and brought personal humiliation to the Fuhrer himself.
False, false, false. A thousand times false.
History has […]