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Did Adolf Hitler snub Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games? Or did the Nazi leader of Germany and the Olympic gold medalist actually shake hands? This Olympic rumor recirculated in December 2016, along with the claim that there was photographic evidence of the latter: The earliest posting of this image we could uncover was shared on Flickr in 2013 by photographer Alvaro Rodriguez. The EXIF data for that image noted that Adobe Photoshop was used to create the image, and we were able to track down the source photographs of both Owens and Hitler: The real image of Jesse Owens (on the left) was taken on the final day of Olympic track and field tryouts at Randall's Island Stadium in New York on 11 July 1936, and also shows fellow Olympian Ralph Metcalfe. The genuine photograph of Hitler (on the right) was taken in September 1939, along with soldiers in occupied Poland. While the image of Hitler and Owens is an obvious fake, the snub issue is a more nuanced subject. Sports reporter and author Paul Gallico described the scene leading up to the snub in a report recalled by author Jeremy Schaap in the book Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics: While it's true that Hitler did not publicly congratulate Owens, there are squabbles over defining this moment as a snub. In an interview with NPR, Schaap explained that Hitler, who congratulated several Olympians on the first day of Olympics, failed to congratulate African-American gold medalist Cornelius Johnson as he had left the stadium. He was told he had to congratulate all of the Olympic winners or none of them, and he opted for the latter: Olympic scholar Idorenyin Uyoe recounted a similar story in the Olympic Moment segment produced below: Owens was finally named a Goodwill Ambassador of Sport nearly twenty years later by President Eisenhower.
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