African–American athlete Jesse Owens flies past his competitors to win the 100m sprint during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He would win gold three more times at the Berlin Games, a record quartet that would not be matched until 1984. Adolf Hitler had intended for the games to demonstrate Aryan supremacy – Owens’ success made a mockery of this.
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