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 ...

Berlin's Olympic stadium is best remembered for African American Jesse Owens four golds in 1936, amidst Nazi propaganda promoting "Aryan racial superiority". They've even named a road after him in ...

Berlin's Olympic stadium is best remembered for African American Jesse Owens four golds in 1936, amidst Nazi propaganda promoting "Aryan racial superiority". They've even named a road after him in ...

On September 26, 1934, Brundage announced that the American Olympic Committee officially accepted the invitation to participate in the Berlin Olympics. American Team Turmoil Jeremiah Mahoney ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. That boxer was Howell King. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where legendary runner Jesse Owens registered what many called a “blow to the Nazi ...

swam in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and went on to serve as a US Women’s Air Service Pilot during the Second World War. Iris Cummings was 15 when, with two national titles for the women’s 200 ...

Malcolm Gladwell isn’t most people. Gladwell, the author, journalist and podcaster, explores the 1936 Berlin Olympics on the latest season of his podcast series “Revisionist History.” ...

In a one-of-a-kind incident which is hardly reminiscent to many, an Indian marathon runner CSA Swami became famous for ...

The gold medallist for a marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, Sohn Kee-chung stands on the podium with his head lowered instead of looking at Japan's rising-sun flag in this photo taken in ...

In 1936, she landed a place on the U.S. Olympic ... By the end of her life, she was the last living athlete from the Berlin Olympics, according to the International Olympic Committee.