Long Jump
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In the 1936 Olympics there was Jesse Owens who won four gold medals and broke the world record for the long jump while also beating Lutz Long, An Aryan of pure blood
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The Olympic Games, hosted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Germany. Hitler was very upset at the success of Jesse Owens over German athletes.
Lutz Lang competed against Jesse Owens in the broad jump at the 1936 Olympics. Lang finished 2nd to Owens. But the big shocker was after the event, when Lang and Owens circled the track Arm-in Arm which infuriated Adolf Hitler.
Owens got the name "Jesse" when a teacher misunderstood his initials, J.C.
EuroGames - LGBT sporting event - was created in 1992.
It is the biggest sporting event.
Dick Fosbury created the Fosbury flop. The sporting event is high jump.
The famed sporting event is the Boston Marathon.
The first sporting event to be to publicly broadcasted was a boxing match in 1921.