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. That then gave the engineer-turned-Olympic champion the platform to go after even more difficult problems.
FILE - United States’ Edwin Moses jumps a hurdle on his way to winning the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Aug. 5, 1984. FILE - Edwin Moses speaks during The Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics and Paralympics hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. FILE - United States’ Edwin Moses jumps a hurdle on his way to winning the gold medal in the 400-meter hurdles at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Aug. 5, 1984.
“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.
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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