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Jesse Owens: The Superior Sprinter
The performance of Jesse Owens at the Berlin Games is well known and rightfully acclaimed. He not only dominated the sprint competition, garnering three gold medals (he won a fourth in the long jump) and earning the title of “fastest man in the world,” but he also was credited with punching a hole in Nazi theories of racial superiority. Yet Owens’s experience in Berlin was quite different from the stories reported in many papers. One popular tale that arose from Owens’s victories was that of the “snub.” On the first day of competition, Adolf Hitler publicly congratulated a few German ...(100 of 413 words)