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 ...

swam in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and went on to serve as a US Women’s Air Service Pilot during the Second World War. Iris Cummings was 15 when, with two national titles for the women’s 200 ...