On this day in 1936, Owens won the 100 meters, and later added three more gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler.

German chancellor Adolf Hitler (3rd R) arrives on the Berlin stadium to preside the opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics 01 August 1936 To the eternal chagrin of Adolf Hitler and his cronies, the ...

Jewish organizations condemned the IOC after a 1936 Berlin Olympics T-shirt sold out online, saying the Games were used to legitimize Hitler’s regime. The governing body for the Olympics is defending ...

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Jesse Owens, one of the most electrifying stars in the history of track and field — and whose record-setting speed and athleticism humiliated Adolf Hitler on the global stage — won his fourth gold ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The International Olympics Committee is under fire over the sale of a T-shirt that features artwork from the 1936 Berlin Olympic ...

He had defeated Jesse Owens and the world was at his feet. Except there was one snag: Sam Stoller was Jewish. Stoller and fellow Jewish-American athlete Marty Glickman arrived at the 1936 Summer ...

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A year out from the rescheduled Tokyo games, the International Olympic Committee has apologized after tweeting a seemingly celebratory clip from the infamous 1936 Berlin games, which occurred when ...

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The 30-second clip from the Olympics account came as part of a series of tweets showing videos from previous editions of the Games. It followed the official accounts of the United States and Belgian ...

GENEVA (AP) — The IOC apologized on Friday and deleted a Twitter message which some saw as celebrating Nazi Germany’s hosting of the 1936 Olympics. Joining a message thread on Thursday one year before ...