ESPN App 1936 Olympics Article - Oops

[PotterCountyNative]

For Black History month, they had an article on the 1936 Olympics. I found a glaring omission in John Woodruff's name missing. He won the first USA gold medal at that Olympics. They of course centered on Jesse Owen, and mentioned 4 or 5 others, but nowhere was the name Woodruff.

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[bwh05]

For Black History month, they had an article on the 1936 Olympics. I found a glaring omission in John Woodruff's name missing. He won the first USA gold medal at that Olympics. They of course centered on Jesse Owen, and mentioned 4 or 5 others, but nowhere was the name Woodruff.

H2P

ESPN is too worried about making Myles Garrett seem justified for his actions to fact check anything.

 

[mike412]

ESPN is too worried about making Myles Garrett seem justified for his actions to fact check anything.

They didn’t get any facts wrong. The focus of their story was that Owens was not the only black American to get a medal in the sprints. Woodruff’s gold was not in the sprints.

That being said, I thought the story was weak.