It was the most popular sport in the 1936
a torch relay is when you are at the Olympics and the put a torch on fire its so cool!!
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens competed in and won the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump, all against Hitler's so-called 'super race'.
In Greece they wanted entertainment so they made the Olympics
Yes he had competed in other Olympics before Beijing so ya he was famous before that. He's been around for a while now.
Owens got the name "Jesse" when a teacher misunderstood his initials, J.C.
What made cyclones so famous is the fact that they destroy things...
In Stornoway. Thats why stornoway is so famous
this was the Olympics during WWI! that means that Hitler was in power. what was even more dangerous was that the o,lympics happened in Germany that year!
He was to the first man to win 7 gold medals in a single Olympics.
1936, but it was not the Nazi propaganda coup that Hitler had envisioned. The German zeppelin Hindenburg with the Olympics logo on its side was scheduled to fly over, but its appearance was prevented by technical difficulties. To make it worse, black American runner Jesse Owens left Hitler's Aryan supermen in the dust, and Hitler showed bad form by refusing to give Owens his gold medal.
He only competed in the 1972 Olympics, where he narrowly missed a Silver medal in the 5000 meters. He died in 1975, so he never made the 1976 Summer Olympics.
In gymnastics??? She never even made the Olympics so