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Germans restore 1936 high jump record

AP - Mon Nov 23, 2:11 pm ET

Germany's athletics association has restored a 1936 high jump record to Gretel Bergmann who was stripped of the recognition and banned from that year's Berlin Olympic Games by the Nazis because she was Jewish. The association said in a statement that the gesture to restore Bergmann's 1.60-meter jump to the record books "can in no way make up" for the past but was "an act...

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