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12 lis 2010 · BEACHWOOD -- The Cleveland summer of 1936 was a hot one, but residents looking for something to do could make their way to the lakefront and catch what the Great Lakes Expo had to offer. In...
8 lut 2018 · Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in the sprints and the long jump in the 1936 Summer Olympics. Harrison Dillard, a Clevealnd-born sprinter who won two gold medals in the 1948 London Summer...
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI. Olympiade) and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
10 sie 2016 · CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio is well-represented at the 2016 Summer Olympics, currently underway in Rio de Janeiro. A handful of the athletes even come from Greater Cleveland. In fact,...
17 lut 2021 · In 1936, Ohio State's Jesse Owens starred at the Olympic Games, a Goodyear strike happened in Akron and Script Ohio took place for the first time.
NOCs: 49 Athletes: 3,963 (331 women, 3,632 men) Events: 129 Volunteers: N/A Media: N/A The Symbol of Fire. These Games saw the introduction of the torch relay based on an idea by Dr Carl Diem. A lit torch was carried from Olympia to the site of the Games through seven countries—Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Germany: a total journey of more than 3,000 km.
In the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany, African American Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals for the United States, sending a clear message to Adolf Hitler about his Nazi regime and theories of white supremacy.
