Helen Stephens was 18 years old when she won two gold medals at the Berlin Olympics and met Adolf Hitler. He “strode forward and gave me a sloppy Nazi salute,” Stephens said in a 1984 oral history ...
Michael Waters’s eye-opening history of gender and athletics in the lead-up to the 1936 Olympics reveals just how old this reactionary movement in athletics is. Helen Stephens winning the Women’s 100m ...