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	She Sailed On

debbyski

11-11-2009 9:54 AM

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"The cathartic moment came when her sons gave her a computer for her 80th birthday -- and she started writing her story."

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/07e7b45e-f88e-42a4-bf6f-a600a742af20/84D51EAB-8F9B-43CA-A59D-BF73A328BA8D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-germany-jumper11-2009nov11,0,808477.story" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-germany-jumper11-2009nov11,0,808477.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.latimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-germany-jumper11-2009nov11,0,808477.story"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.latimes.com/img/82DE5854-2982-4AB0-A2A5-864D1E77607A" alt="Gretel Bergmann" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-germany-jumper11-2009nov11,0,808477.story"><DIV> 
For more than seven decades, Gretel Bergmann has been haunted by a recurring dream.</DIV>
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"I'm in the middle of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, with 100,000 people staring at me and it's my turn to jump, but I just can't, I can't move a muscle," she says. "My legs are like jelly."</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-germany-jumper11-2009nov11,0,808477.story"><DIV>
The scene never happened: The Jewish high jumper, now 95, was robbed of the chance to take part in the 1936 Berlin <A id="PLGEO000003" title="Germany" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/intl/germany-PLGEO000003.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">Olympics</A>, which Adolf Hitler notoriously used to show off Aryan sporting prowess to the rest of the world.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-germany-jumper11-2009nov11,0,808477.story"><DIV>
Hers is the incredible story of an exceptional Jewish athlete exploited and then cast off by the <A id="ORCIG00000044" title="Nazis" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/nazis-ORCIG00000044.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">Nazis</A>, a saga complete with a last-minute rejection letter that ends with the words "Heil Hitler!" and a sexual identity scandal involving her replacement that has echoes of the recent uproar over South African runner <A id="PESPT000008693" title="Caster Semenya" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/athletics-track-field/caster-semenya-PESPT000008693.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">Caster Semenya</A>.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-germany-jumper11-2009nov11,0,808477.story">
If it seems cinematic, it is. Her story has been brought to life by the recent movie "Berlin 36</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/84D51EAB-8F9B-43CA-A59D-BF73A328BA8D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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