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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That, in turn, gave the engineer-turned-Olympic champion the platform to go after more difficult issues that, even today, more than 40 years later, nobody has totally untangled.The title to a new documentary on Moses, “13 Steps,” pays homage to the then-revolutionary number of strides the track star took between the 10 barriers in the notoriously painful 400-meter hurdles — a race where he lined up 122 straight times over a span of 9 years, 9 months and 9 days without getting beat.
Still, “13 Steps” depicts race as playing a sizable role in many of Moses' biggest life decisions, including his enrollment at Morehouse, a historically Black college in Atlanta. Interviews with fellow alums Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson, along with a who's-who of Olympians, sports lawyers, childhood friends and even celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, knit together Moses' story.
The movie also documents Moses' activist role in the anti-doping space, a world that has made vast strides but, in some ways,as when Ben Johnson spawned the modern-day movement with his notorious positive test for steroids at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.Before that, Moses spent a career trying to get himself and his rivals paid.
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