After running in a preliminary heat for the 200 meters, Jesse Owens went immediately to the long jump pit. A reporter then asked Owens if it was true that Hitler had walked out on him and refused to watch him jump, upsetting Owens. Owens did not realize that the long jump competition had already begun, and he ran down the runway and jumped, but his practice jump was counted as his first official jump due to a foul called by a German official.