Not long after Edwin Moses figured out how to attack the solution to track’s ultimate math problem, he transformed himself into the best hurdler in history.
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“Everyone's angry about something, but what can you do and what are you going to do?” Moses says in the movie, reflecting on the larger-than-sports role he assumed after becoming one of track's brightest lights in the 1970s and '80s., Morehouse College, dissects Moses' role in three causes that remain unresolved: fair pay for athletes in track and the Olympics; doping; and racial equality in America.
Moses insisted he was framed by a corrupt LA Police Department, so he fought that case all the way through the court system and won. He had no issues with the placement of that potentially reputation-altering and now all-but-forgotten episode in the movie “because it happened, and you can't un-remember things like that.”
He recalls his first paid race — a $600 appearance in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1977. Then, years later, as he prepared for a race in Cologne, Germany, where a crowd of 60,000 was expected, a light went off.“It didn't make sense. I was a radical from the very beginning. If we didn't get what we deserved, we just didn't run," Moses says in the movie.
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