历届奥运会回顾：柏林奥运会
KEY FACTS
Opening date: 01 August 1936
Closing date:16 August 1936
The Host City: Berlin (Germany)
Sports: 19
BERLIN 1936 Games of the XI Olympiad
The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler's failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority. As it turned out, the most popular hero of the Games, was the African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals.
During the long jump competition, Owens'German rival, Luz Long, publicly befriended him in front of the Nazis. 1936 saw the introduction of the torch relay, in which a lighted torch is carried from Olympia to the site of the current Games. The 1936 Olympics were also the first to be broadcast on a form of television.
Twenty-five large screens were set up throughout Berlin, allowing the local people to see the Games for free. Basketball, canoeing and team handball made their first appearances, while polo was included in the Olympic programme for the last time. Thirteen-year-old Marjorie Gestring of the United States won the gold medal in springboard diving.
Do You Know? 火炬传递从这次奥运会开始
These Games saw the introduction of the torch relay based on an idea by Dr Carl Diem - lighted torch was carried from Olympia to the site of the Games through 7 countries- Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany: a total journey of more than 3,000 km.
奥运会举行了隆重的火炬点燃仪式，火炬接力在7个国家间进行：希腊、比利时、南斯拉夫、匈牙利、捷克、奥地利和德国，全长3000千米。