Jesse Owens, the athlete who defied Adolf Hitler

Now that Usain Bolt has broken all records and all the good uses of common sense applied to athletics, many turn to remember Jesse Owens, the first great sprinter in history who challenged the very Adolf Hitler when he tried to instill their ideology to the world totalitarian.

The year was 1936 and the Olympics were held in Berlin, where Adolf Hitler was trying to give the world the image of a resurgent Nazi Germany. What better showcase to demonstrate the supposed superiority of the Aryan race that caracterizadaba this totalitarian regime that the creme de la creme of sports: athletics.

I would not know Adolf Hitler is that a young black man from Alabama, United States, would give a lot of trouble at home and was to prove that black people was not, far from an inferior race.

Ebony antelope, knowing that he would be unattainable because of its fame, won four gold medals. Indeed, three come from the disciplines in which it competes Usain Bolt: 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash and 4 × 100 meters, and the last in the long jump.

From here, history is blurred and some argue that Hitler refused Adolt greet the great winner of the Olympic Games. It also says he had no obligation to greet anyone and that he only did the first two winners of the Games. Jesse Owens himself said he received a letter congratulating the German Government for its achievements, which was not received from Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of its U.S. homeland, not invited to the White House at a time in which the rights of black society was far below that of whites.

But surely, demonstrating Jesse Owens in these Olympics is that no race is superior to another. And there is no denying, Adolf Hitler was first challenged in his own house. In their own Olympic Games.