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His was a golden story of the 1936 Olympics in Germany. Jesse Owens won four gold medals in track, all of this a year after breaking three track world records and tying a fourth in the Big Ten ...

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance one spring ... This was the background for the 1936 Olympics. When Owens finished competing, the African-American son of a sharecropper and the grandson ...

Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were tainted and are remembered for so much more than his endeavours in athletics. Admittedly Owens was different to most of his rivals ...

Jesse Owens was one the biggest Olympic heroes of all time. When he took four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Germany, it ...

Later, a second Olympic controversy arose when Jewish American athletes Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller were benched and replaced by African American athletes Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe in the ...

Jesse Owens, an American, son of slaves on a cotton farm in Alabama, had already become champion in the 100 meters when on August 4, 1936, they met in front of the sandbox of the Olympic Stadium ...

For a time at least I was the most famous person in the entire world Jesse Owens "He loved what he did in the 1936 Olympics and appreciated that opportunity when he came home he still had life to ...

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 ...

For a time at least I was the most famous person in the entire world Jesse Owens "He loved what he did in the 1936 Olympics and appreciated that opportunity when he came home he still had life to ...