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Venezuelan sportscaster: Hitler snubbed Michael Phelps at the 1972 Olympics

A YouTube video has caught a Venezuelan TV sportscaster in the act of a flagrant example of historical ignorance.

The anchor, one of the replacement journalists the government of Hugo Chavez installed after nationalizing TV station RCTV, confuses Michael Phelps and Jesse Owens, and then goes on to claim that Hitler presided over the Munich games of 1972.

Read entire article at HNN Staff based on a report by Humberto Fontova