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Jesse Owens won four Olympic golds — then was paid to campaign against FDR
“Hitler declared Aryan supremacy by decree, but Jesse Owens is proving him a liar by degrees.” Owens took his third gold medal running the 200-meter race in record time, ahead of Mack ...
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Two More Jesse Owens Gold Medals to be Auctioned
BERLIN - 1936 : Jesse Owens of the USA in action in the mens 200m at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. Owens won a total of four gold medals in the Olympics, winning the mens ...
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Owens pierced a myth
Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. Owens' story is one of a high-profile sports star making a statement that transcended athletics, spilling over into the world of ...
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After my grandfather hugged Jesse Owens, the Nazis told him: ‘Never embrace a black man again’
would win four gold medals to deliver the ultimate repudiation of that vision. Jesse Owens’ place among the icons of sport is indelible. The figure far less known is the Leipzig-born long jumper ...
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Jesse Owens, Luz Long and the legacy of an indelible friendship
Not only did they not need a gold medal. Sometimes ... was left in the hands of another. Jesse Owens, an American, son of slaves on a cotton farm in Alabama, had already become champion in ...
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1936 - Berlin
One man, five days of competition, four gold medals won. That equation should have been enough to make any athlete stand out in a crowd of his contemporaries. Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the ...
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10 seconds that defied Adolf Hitler
In 10.3 seconds Jesse Owens' life would change forever ... become the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad and not only became a great in the ...
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During Black History Month, remember stories of Black athletes who influenced America
Never mind that Johnson actually married Cameron later that same year. In 1936, Olympian Jesse Owens won four gold medals in Berlin. Avery Brundage, the president of both the U.S. Olympic ...
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Athletes are going faster, higher, and farther—thanks to technology and smarts
Bolt had to forfeit a gold medal he won as part of a relay in the 2008 Olympics after a teammate tested positive. Jesse Owens won the 100-meter race at the 1936 Olympics in 10.3 seconds.
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Owens pierced a myth
Jesse Owens' performance one spring afternoon in 1935 would be the accomplishment of a lifetime. In 45 minutes, he established three world records and tied another. Owens won four gold medals in ...
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10 seconds that defied Hitler
In 10.3 seconds Jesse Owens' life would change forever ... become the first American track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad and not only became a great in the ...