Jesse Owens

M. WHITFIELD: Then four years later, I was energized by this great man called Jesse Owens, this guy I had a pin on my shirt here.

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"Jesse Owens," Thompson continued, "made a huge statement, not only for Americans but for black Americans and for black people throughout the world as well.

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Today in Sports: The great Jesse Owens won his first gold medal 100 meters at the Olympics in Berlin.

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If you look it up, on this date, Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals when the U.S. won the 4x100 meter relay at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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The list included track greats such as Fanny Blankers-Koen, the star of the 1948 London Games, and Jesse Owens, who inspired a generation of black athletes at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

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Olympian Jesse Owens once beat a horse in a 100-yard dash.

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Today in Sports: The great Jesse Owens won his first gold medal 100 meters at the Olympics in Berlin.

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Like superstar runner Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who not only sprinted into the record books carrying armloads of medals, but, like Jesse Owens before her, also overcame racial discrimination to do what she did best: run faster than anybody.

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If you look it up, on this date, Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals when the U.S. won the 4x100 meter relay at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

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