As Australia, the United Kingdom and Lithuania join the United States’ diplomatic boycott of the upcoming winter Olympics in Beijing, we look back at the calls to boycott the 1936 Olympics, which were ...

Track and field athlete Jesse Owens was already a phenom by the time he qualified for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. But his performance at those Summer Games was even more noteworthy, particularly against ...

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Doris Storey competed for Great Britain at the 1936 Berlin Olympics [Grace Wood/BBC] Eventually, Doris was selected to swim for Great Britain, and so she made her journey to Berlin for the Olympics ...

Germany had its propaganda coup. For a fortnight, it masqueraded as at least as ‘normal’ a democratic state as the rest of ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin — he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay, and the long jump — made him a track and field great.Related ...

A Jewish memorabilia collector recalls the Jewish trifecta of women athletes who won medals in foil at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. One of the most intriguing storylines for Jewish fans at the 2024 Paris ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay and the long jump – made him a track and field great. Those ...

"There were stormtroopers all the way around the arena, Swastika flags everywhere, and apparently, when all the athletes were in the stadium and Hitler entered, they were made to stand - and my ...