Hitler’s Olympics, Part 6: The Jiggle & the G...

Jesse Owens spent the rest of his life retelling the story of the 1936 games and his encounter with Luz Long. We trace the evolution of a tall tale, discovering the hidden life of one of America’s iconic sports heroes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

In the early 1930s, a young German law student spent a year in Arkansas, studying American “race law.” The fight over the 1936 Games provided Americans with a chance to study Nazi Germany. But it turns out the Nazis were studying us too. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in ...  عرض المزيد

The most famous athlete in 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany was the American sprinter Jesse Owens, and one of the most famous stories from those Games was the unexpected, heartwarming encounter Owens had with the German long jumper Luz Long. The friendship between the two athletes w ...  عرض المزيد

On this episode of Our American Stories, the story of United States Olympic legend Jesse Owens' and Nazi long jumper Luz Long’s friendship demonstrates how sports can unite people even in the toughest circumstances. Here to tell the story is the Jack Miller Center’s editorial off ...  عرض المزيد

In March 1975, West Germany – the newly crowned world champions – came to London’s Wembley Stadium for a friendly against England.Among the German squad was a 28-year-old striker who’d already attracted a lot of attention from the British media: not because he’d been hailed as th ...  عرض المزيد

The Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius, symbolized overcoming all odds to achieve sports greatness as he made his way to the 2012 Olympics while running on prosthetic blade-like legs. But it all came crashing down when his girlfriend was shot and killed one night at his home in South ...  عرض المزيد