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Jesse Owens

The United States' Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, alongside German silver medalist Luz Long, who performs a Nazi salute, right, and bronze medalist Naoto Tajima, of Japan, during the eleventh Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, August 11, 1936. (AP Photo)
October 18, 2022, 9:34 pm
Medal of German Olympian who defied Hitler in ’36 Games auctioned at nearly $500,000
Silver medalist Luz Long known as first to congratulate Black-American gold medal winner Jesse Owens, who previously said Nazi leader ‘must have gone crazy’ watching embrace
By AP
America's Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, alongside silver medalist Luz Long, right, of Germany, and bronze medalist Naoto Tajima, of Japan, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, August 11, 1936 (AP Photo/File)
October 7, 2022, 8:04 am
Medal of Olympian who defied Hitler by embracing Jesse Owens goes under the hammer
German long jumper Luz Long finished second to African-American Jesse Owens, whose on-field success at 1936 Berlin games shattered Nazi leader’s myth of Aryan physical supremacy
By Eddie Pells
Nazi soldiers line up at attention during the opening ceremonies of the eleventh Summer Olympic Games at the Lustgarten in Berlin, Germany on August 1, 1936. The lighted Olympic torch is in the foreground. (AP Photo)
July 24, 2020, 8:28 pm
IOC apologizes, deletes ‘throwback Thursday’ tweet about 1936 Berlin Olympics
Olympic committee says Twitter message part of a series meant to highlight ‘message of unity and solidarity’ on date marking one year to opening of delayed Tokyo Olympics
By Graham Dunbar
Jesse Owens starts the 200 meters sprint at the 1936 Berlin Olympics photo credit: Wikipedia)
May 1, 2017, 3:53 am
Two of Owens’ 1936 Olympic gold medals to be auctioned
A third medal was auctioned in 2013 for $1,466,574, a record sum for any Olympic item
By AFP
First Lady Michelle Obama jokingly rests her arm on US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles alongside President Barack Obama (R) at a ceremony honoring US Olympians in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, September 29, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)
October 1, 2016, 10:26 am
Obama hosts families of black athletes snubbed at Nazis’ 1936 Olympics
President says it was African-American athletes ‘under gaze of Hitler’ who ‘put lie to notions of racial superiority’
By STEPHEN WHYNO
In this 1936 photo, American Jesse Owens runs in a 200-meter preliminary heat at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. Owens won four gold medals at the games, and showed up Adolph Hitler's idea of Aryan supremacy. (AP Photo/File)
July 31, 2016, 11:08 pm
80 years on, Jesse Owens’ daughter adamant he didn’t shake Hitler’s hand
New movie marks anniversary of infamous 1936 Berlin Olympic games, where multi-gold medalist countered vision of Aryan supremacy
By AFP and ToI Staff
Tourists photograph themselves in front of the Berlin 1936 Olympic Stadium, its twin towers and Olympic symbol still soaring high (photo credit: AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
December 16, 2014, 6:04 pm
In eternally stained Berlin, worrying about Israel
Op-ed: The Jews’ war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. And we’re easy to find now
By David Horovitz
In this combination of photos taken between Feb. 9 and Feb. 13, 2014, spectators at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, show their national pride with face paint. (photo credit: AP Photo)
February 15, 2014, 6:25 pm
In Sochi, as at all Olympics since 1936, politics lurks
Games have been world’s most political apolitical event ever since Hitler watched black American Jesse Owens take gold in the Berlin 100-meters
By Ted Anthony
Gold medalist Jesse Owens of the United States salutes as others perform the Nazi salute at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, August 11, 1936. (AP Photo/File)
December 2, 2013, 10:12 am
Jesse Owens’ Nazi-era Olympic medal up for auction
For Owens’ daughter, medal represents victory over Hitler’s Aryan supremacy ideas, and segregation in the US
By AP
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