Athletics
Olympic Games athletics results on Wednesday: Men 200m men Heat 1 (wind: -0.4 m/s) 1. Lashawn Merritt (USA) 19.94. Q 2.
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Jesse Owens who won 4 gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Berlin in 1936 exercising in the Olympic village of Doeberitz (Getty Images)
Owens exploded the Nazi-propagated myth of Aryan racial superiority when he won four track and field gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics under the nose of Adolf Hitler.
The African-American was already a star when he arrived in Berlin, a year after he set five world records and equalled a sixth in the space of 45 minutes in Ann Arbor - including a long jump mark of 8.13m that would stand for 25 years.
He didn't disappoint in Berlin, winning gold in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump, and setting three world records along the way.
Hitler was reported to have stormed out of the stadium after Owens, the grandson of slaves, won the 100m, although the 'Buckeye Bullet' later said the Nazi leader waved to him in passing.
But Owens was snubbed by his own president on his return to the United States when Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to greet him, a customary honour for returning champions.
"When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus," Owens said later. "I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the president, either."
Owens, a pack-a-day smoker for much of his life, died of lung cancer in 1980. In testament to his enduring popularity among the German public, he has a street and a school named after him in Berlin.
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