. >> sammy lee of the u.s. diving team overcame a lot to get to london.nonwhite athlete, he wasn't allowed full training privileges back in the u.s. and could only practice one day a week. at age 91, he still remembers his olympic dive. >> hitting the water i thought i did a belly flop because i was tingling all over. i broke the record. >> it won him the gold medal, the first given to an asian american. another first at the '48 games? alice coachman became the first african-american gold medalist. she won the high jump, beating the british favorite dorothy tyler. >> i congratulated her and kissed her on the cheek and the cameraman said, why did you do that? i said, well, she's a competitor. and so she won. i gave her a kiss. >> that kiss on the cheek was controversial in london in '48 and downright unheard of back in segregated rural georgia where alice coachman returned home to a half hearted welcome. >> when we got on the stage for the ceremony, it was segregated. even an olympic gold medal winner had to sit on one side of the stage and the mayor of th