Myriad Says
Yes, believe it or not, Father of Nation of India, Mahatma Gandhi covered Olympics 1932 as a reorter. Myriad sites claim Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Indian nation, attended the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles as a newspaper reporter. If that is true, it’s definitely a unknown Olympic fact; however, it doesn’t seem to add up. Gandhi started his journalistic career in South Africa with the Indian Opinion in 1903. The newspaper’s goal was to give the Indians a weekly round-up of news and to teach them about sanitation and hygiene.
Olympics History 1932
He spearheaded the freedom movement in India upon his move in 1915. Gandhi was arrested in Bombay at 3:00 a.m. January 4, 1932 by British police with a warrant claiming “good and sufficient reasons.” He was still in prison in September of 1932 when he began a “fast unto death” to improve the status of the Untouchable caste. A compromise was reached four days later. Those facts make it pretty unlikely that Gandhi was a newspaper report in Los Angeles during the 1932 Olympics, but it’s a cool “what if?” to consider.
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