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 ...

It was in a heat at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, but it was hero to almost zero in the final with compatriot Ralph Craig leaving Lippincott with bronze. A year after breaking or equalling six world ...

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 ...

Special Olympics is bringing an all new basketball tournament to life, a Unified 3x3 World Cup modeled on the FIBA World Cup.

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 ...

Serena Williams' husband Alexis Ohanian recently reacted to American track-and-field legend Jesse Owens' historic gold medal win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Owens won the gold medal in front of ...

The German capital is expected to join forces with the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Schleswig-Holstein and put forward a proposition for hosting the ...

Eight years later, at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the torch relay was born. The flame was lit in Olympia and transported to Berlin, kicking off the Olympics and a tradition that has since spanned the ...

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Special Olympics World Games CEO Sven Albrecht and a woman in the role of high priestess light the Flame for the 2023 Games in Berlin (AAP) Credit: GEORGE VITSARAS/EPA ...