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 ...

On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...

In an attempt to signal Germany's return to ... Brundage announced that the American Olympic Committee officially accepted the invitation to participate in the Berlin Olympics.

The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, hosted by a freshly appointed Adolf Hitler, were filled with historic moments in both ...