Jesse Owens

year Loren Seagrave, the new coach of long jumper Dwight Phillips, assessed his charge and pronounced, "Fat don't fly." The 2004 Olympic gold medalist had let himself go after failing to qualify for the '08 Games,...

ILLUMINATING LOOK AT AN ENDURING MYTH You'd think there's nothing left to say about the 1936 Olympics, but in Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens ESPN's Jeremy Schaap argues that much of what is believed about...

THE 1936 OLYMPICS provided one of the most dramatic performances in the history of the Games: Jesse Owens's four-gold-medal haul in Adolf Hitler's Berlin. But it also featured what New York Times columnist Arthur...

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