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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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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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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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The Underside of Fame: Cleveland native Jesse Owens achieved Olympic glory in Berlin, but still couldn't outrun racism
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 ...
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About that time Jesse Owens coached the Mets…
It was 1962 when Casey Stengel predicted man would touch the moon before the Mets won the World Series. By February 1965, Mars looked like a lock, too. Each of the Mets’ first three seasons of ...
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The 1936 Olympics
But disgust could not prevent American runner Jesse Owens from becoming the star of the games. Owens won four gold medals in all, setting world records in the 100- and 200-meter sprints ...
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Jesse Owens (IMAGE)
Caption J.C. 'Jesse' Owens possessed both elite speed and raw power, which he honed and blended on his way to winning four Olympic gold medals in 1936. Those impressive traits -- elite speed and ...
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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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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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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 ...