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The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936. German rowers, dominant at the Games, line up against America's top eight-oared crew. Hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide wait by their radios. Leni Riefenstahl prepares her cameramen. Grantland Rice looks past the 75,000 spectators crowding the riverbank. Above it all, the Nazi leadership, flush with the propaganda triumph the Olympics have given their New Germany, await a crowning victory they can broadcast to the world. The Berlin Games matched cutting-edge communication technology with compelling sports narrative to draw the blueprint for all future sports broadcasting. Michael J. Socolow's account moves from the era's technological innovations to the human drama of how the race changed the lives of nine young men.

Rowing --- Radio broadcasting of sports --- Boat-racing --- Sculling --- Aquatic sports --- Boats and boating --- Regattas --- Racing shells --- Sports broadcasting --- Sports in radio --- Mass media and sports --- Sports journalism --- History --- Olympic Games --- Jeux olympiques --- Summer Olympics --- Games of the XI Olympiad --- Olympische Spiele --- Olympische Sommerspiele --- Olympia (Sporting event) --- Nazi-Olympiade --- Olympiade --- Hitlers Olympiade --- Nazi Olympics --- Hitler's Games --- Olimpiese Somerspele --- Spele van die XIde Olimpiade --- Spele van die XIe Olimpiade --- Chuegos Olimpicos --- Chuegos d'a XI Olimpiada d'a Era Muderna --- Xuegos Olímpicos --- Xuegos de la XI Olimpiada --- Yay Olimpiya Oyunları --- Летнія Алімпійскія гульні --- Letnii︠a︡ Alimpiĭskii︠a︡ hulʹni --- Гульні XI Алімпіяды --- Hulʹni XI Alimpii︠a︡dy --- Летни олимпийски игри --- Letni olimpiĭski igri --- Jocs Olímpics d'estiu --- Jocs Olímpics de la XI Olimpíada --- Jocs Olímpics --- Letní olympijské hry --- Gemau Olympaidd yr Haf --- Gemau'r XI Olympiad --- Sommer-OL --- Olympiske Lege --- XI Olympiades Lege --- Olympiades Lege --- Press coverage.