Editing Ralph Metcalfe (section)

==== 1936 ====
[[File:Olympic sprinters Owens Metcalfe and Wykoff 1936.jpg|thumb|Metcalfe (center) with Jesse Owens and Frank Wykoff on the deck of the S.S. ''Manhattan'' as the team sailed for Germany in 1936]]
In the sprint relay, Metcalfe became involved in a controversy not of his own making. Originally the United States chose for the relay the athletes who had come 4th to 7th in the trials. Two of these athletes, [[Sam Stoller]] and [[Marty Glickman]], were replaced with Metcalfe and Jesse Owens allegedly because the former were Jewish. Metcalfe and Owens were undoubtedly the superior sprinters but they had not done the relay baton practice and the switch went against established practice.<ref name="fmoe"/>

Whilst all world attention was on [[Jesse Owens]] winning the gold in the 100 m it is often ignored that Metcalfe won the silver in an equally outstanding performance.