[14] All Jewish athletes were warned to leave, and two Israelis slated to compete in sailing were instructed to return home immediately.

[14] They handed Cohan their satin, blue and white triangular flag, emblazoned with "Sports Federation of Israel.

"[14] Competing at the age of 42, he came from far back on the final day and earned a bronze medal as helmsman in the mixed three-person 29-foot (8.8 m) Dragon class, named Caprice.

He was notorious, among other things, for having pressured to have the only two Jews on the U.S. track team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, sprinters Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, removed at the very last moment on the morning of their 400-meter relay race, so as not to embarrass Hitler and the Nazis with a Jewish victory.

He charged Robbie Haines, one of the competitors in the Olympic yachting Soling trials, with having left too early (or "barged") at the start of the race, in Long Beach, California.

Ed Baird, a fellow competitor, said that Cohan "destroyed Haines in the protest room", but that "We're all still pretty close".

[25] Nineteen years after winning his Olympic medal, in 1991, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease of the lymph glands and nodes, and was found to have the most severe type (4B).

[4] He interviewed doctors, engaged a psychiatrist to help him deal with grief and fear, and told his wife she would be his deputy in the struggle.

[4] He went through aggressive chemotherapy and radiation therapy, suffered through fatigue, nausea, night sweats, swelling, and pain, and made it through the cancer successfully.