Steve Hake

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FT Tech Tonic · Rewiring sport: How technology is helping athletes break barriers · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

And he just won three gold medals at the Pan Am Games in Canada.

He's only 20.

He was just hitting stardom.

On the Friday, he was competing in the stadium with everyone shouting his name.

And then the Saturday morning, he was at Pickering High School on an old kind of cinder track.

And so we gave him some old-fashioned shoes that were made by a professional shoemaker.

that replicated what Jesse Owens had with spikes on them, made out of leather, quite soft.

And then we put some kind of baggy shorts on him, cotton t-shirts.

So nothing like modern running shoes or aerodynamic running gear.

And then back in 1936, what you were running on was kind of a natural track made out of cinders.

It could be quite hard.

It could be quite soft if it was really, really wet.

And there were no starting blocks.

And you've got images, if you look online, you can see images of Jesse Owens with a gardening trowel, literally a gardening trowel.

And he's down at his starter's end and he's digging a hole to create his very own foot placements, basically his own starting blocks.

You would have the starter's gun, ready, on your marks, get set, bang.

And on the bang, there would be a bit of smoke.

And down the opposite end of the track, you'd have someone with a timing watch, which I've got one here, and it's accurate to about a fifth of a second, which it was about in those days.

So we replicated this, and I had to be the timer.

I was...

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