Inside The Games4 年
1936 - Berlin
Yet Jesse Owens' performances in the Berlin Olympics of 1936 were tainted and are remembered ... torch is carried from Olympia in Greece to the site of the current Games. They were also the ...
BBC2 个月
The Jesse Owens Olympics: Berlin 1936
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 ...
BBC6 年
The Jesse Owens Olympics: Berlin 1936
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 ...
PBS5 年
The 1936 Olympics
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 ...
Business Insider7 年
Olympic torch relay was created by the Nazis in 1936
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 the site of ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency7 年
Jewish athlete barred from 1936 Berlin Olympics dies at 103
(JTA) — Margaret Bergmann Lambert, a high jumper who was barred from the 1936 Berlin Olympics because she was Jewish, died in New York at 103. Her niece, Doris Bergman, confirmed that Lambert ...