Jesse Owens became an international superstar at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, winning four gold medals. Owens claimed gold in ...

Jesse Owens' legendary performance at the 1936 Summer Olympics has not been recounted quite like this. "Triumph: Jesse Owens ...

(CNN) -- In the history of the modern Olympics few, if any, performances have captured the popular imagination in quite the same way as that of American Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games.

For most athletes, Jesse Owens' performance ... Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. But that was merely an appetizer for Owens. In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred ...

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 ...

Jesse Owens is one of the great American athletic heroes. Not only did he win four gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics – he did it while standing up to the racism of Nazi Germany.

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 ...

The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris produced incredible ... and about the forgotten heroes along the way who weren’t named Jesse Owens. Creator Malcolm Gladwell was unavailable to be interviewed ...

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — From Jesse Owens to Bob Beamon to Carl Lewis and plenty more, Americans have ruled the men's long jump throughout the history of the Summer Olympics, but there was no ...

In one week in the summer of 1936, on the sacred soil of the Fatherland, the master athlete humiliated the master race. Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Munich. Owens ...