Definitions

1. Jesse Owens is a famous name in the world of sports.
2. Jesse Owens is a modest creature who lived to please himself.
3. Jesse Owens, a great Olympian, is my hero. (Web site)
4. Jesse Owens, the Berlin Olympics, and the art of running. (Web site)
5. Jesse Owens is remembered for one stunning week in 1936, when he won four track and field gold medals at a single Olympics.

Symbol

1. May his light shine forever as a symbol for all who run for the freedom of sport, for the spirit of humanity, for the memory of Jesse Owens. (Web site)

Life

1. The "father" of black sprinting, Jesse Owens, was a good example of someone seeking a better status to get out of the hard life filled with poverty. (Web site)
2. In 1984 an Emmy Award -winning biographical film of his life, The Jesse Owens Story, was released. (Web site)

History

1. In what may be the most famous incident in Olympic history, Jesse Owens wins four gold medals, showing up German claims of Aryan superiority. (Web site)

Information

1. The Jesse Owens Foundation provides information, materials, and direction for research on the life of Jesse Owens.

Sports

1. F ew athletes have transcended their sports to become a symbol of an era as did Jesse Owens. (Web site)

Games

1. At the 1984 Olympic Games, he matched the legendary Jesse Owens by winning four track and field gold medals.

Athletes

1. Sprinters Tyson Gay and Allyson Felix has been named the winners of the Jesse Owens Award as the outstanding US athletes of 2007.

Scholarship

1. Eulace attended Temple University on a scholarship and was almost a teammate of Jesse Owens, who instead accepted a scholarship to Ohio State University. (Web site)

Second Day

1. Jesse Owens had his victories on the second day, when Hitler was no longer in attendance. (Web site)

Year Earlier

1. A year earlier, Jesse Owens broke five world records and equaled a sixth in 45 minutes at the Big Ten championships.

History Books

1. Fast and fierce, Jesse Owens sprinted his way into the history books.

Great Man

1. M. WHITFIELD: Then four years later, I was energized by this great man called Jesse Owens. (Web site)

Whole Story

1. On the back of the book is the quote: "You think you know about Jesse Owens, you think you know the whole story about the '36 Olympics.

Years

1. Jesse Owens has received several tributes in the years following his death. (Web site)

Germany

1. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany." - Jesse Owens, The Jesse Owens Story, 1970. (Web site)

Berlin

1. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Jesse Owens, the legendary American track athlete, won four gold medals wearing Dassler shoes.

Peacock

1. A great sprinter, Peacock had the misfortune to be competing at the same time as two other greats, Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe. (Web site)

Track

1. Carl Lewis repeats Jesse Owens 's feat of winning four gold medals in track and field at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
2. Jesse Owens had completed a task that had never been accomplished in the history of track and field.
3. Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in track and field at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

Alabama

1. Born in Dothan, Alabama and raised in New Jersey, he became a rival to Jesse Owens in many sprinting competitions.
2. Born in 1961, in Alabama like the legendary Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis was a late developer physically.

Gold Medals

1. Jesse Owens At the 1936 Olympics he won gold medals in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, 4x100-meter relay and broad jump. (Web site)
2. In particular, African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals.

Tribulations

1. Through all the trials, tribulations and successes, Jesse Owens was a devoted and loving family man.

Glickman

1. The day before the race, however, the U.S. track team coaches replaced Glickman and Stoller with two other runners, Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe.

Metcalfe

1. En 1935, Jesse Owens, un autre noir-américain, parvient à mettre fin à la domination sans partage de Metcalfe.

Olympics

1. When you get down to it, it's not too different, perhaps, from how Jesse Owens was treated during and after the Olympics in Nazi Germany. (Web site)

Four Gold Medals

1. He won four gold medals at the 1984 Olympics, equaling the 1936 accomplishment of his hero, Jesse Owens. (Web site)
2. As it turned out, the most popular hero of the Games, was the African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. (Web site)

Jesse Owens

1. Lewis is the first athlete since Jesse Owens to win four gold medals in track during the same Olympic Games. (Web site)
2. Jesse Owens, saluting on the center dais, was one of three Alpha Phi Alpha members who participated in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
3. At a turbulent time in history, just before World War II, he became a popular and national hero, along with Jesse Owens, for both black and white America.

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1. Four Gold Medals
2. Metcalfe
3. Tribulations
4. National Hero
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