 long had the blonde hair blue-eyed look that hitler so favored yet long didn't buy into the master race propaganda that hitler espoused he offered a suggestion to owens to play it safe make your mark several inches before the takeoff board and jump from there owens used the advice and qualified on his last jump later that afternoon long's fifth jump matched owens 25 10 in the finals but owens won the gold medal with a final jump of 26 five and a half on his last jump