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Almost 90 years since Black American Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, a new film tells the heartwarming story of sportsmanship, solidarity and the struggles he ...

Jesse Owens (right) smokes competitors in the 200-meter sprint at the Berlin Summer Games, setting a new Olympic record. | Austrian Archives/Imagno/Getty Images A gifted sprinter, relay racer, and ...

U.S. track star Jesse Owens made history at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 75 years ago, when he destroyed the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy. He brought home four gold medals, and four oak saplings. The ...

Starocci, the first five-time national champion in NCAA Division I wrestling history, wins the Big Ten's Jesse Owens Male Athlete of the Year Award.

The photos of Long and his long-jump rival Owens have become a representation of Olympic ideals - Bettmann© Provided by The Telegraph ...

Long and American Jesse Owens' friendship, forged at the Berlin Olympics, is one of sport's most enduring images. As Jeremy Schaap recently wrote, the Third Reich turned the 1936 Olympics into "a ...

The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000, a sum the auction house said was a ...

OWENS, JESSE (12 September 1913-31 March 1980), was a world record setting track-and-field athlete during the 1930s. In 1950 sportswriters voted him as the world's top track star of the century. Born ...

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After my grandfather hugged Jesse Owens, the Nazis told him: ‘Never embrace a black man again’ Jesse Owens maintained contact with the Long family after his friend's death in WW2 - Getty Images ...

The silver medal of Luz Long, the German long jumper who embraced Jesse Owens at the Berlin Olympics after losing to the American, sold for $488,435 at auction -- a record for an auctioned silver ...