The long jump is one of the 12 original track and field events held at the inaugural Olympic Games in 1896. Since then, athletes representing Cuba, Great Britain, German Democratic Republic, Panama, Sweden, and the United States have won the event. Americans have won the Olympic long jump final 22 times, the most by any ...
Jesse Owens , the runner who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and whose sterling performance was a slap in the face to Adolf Hitler and his racist eugenics philosophy, was the most popular an iconic figure in American track and field history. A decade before Jackie Robinson broke the color bar ...
It was one of the greatest honors of my life, to interview Jessie Owens . The funny part was we didn’t even talk about sports! It was November 1975 in Scottsdale, Arizona . I was just starting a monthly tabloid newspaper . It was called “The P.M.A. Journal” ( Positive Mental Attitude ). My goal ...
James Cleveland Owens was born on September 12, 1913 in Oakville, Alabama. James was the youngest of ten children born to Henry and Emma Owens. His family called him “J.C.” for short. The Owens family were sharecroppers. But even though J.C. had plenty of work to do on the family farm, he was able to ...
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