You don't measure Jesse Owens against runners 70 years later who have improved equipment, training, diet.
With his times from 1936, Jesse Owens wouldn't get near today's Olympic starting blocks.
In 1913, Jesse Owens, the U.S. athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, is born.
Jesse Owens was the star of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, winning four gold medals under the glare of Adolf Hitler.
Then again, she does have as many golds (4) as Jesse Owens (whose heirs operate the Jesse Owens Foundation a registered trademark).
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Attempting a move into the long jump would see Bolt join the likes of athletics legend Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens, as sprinters with the capacity to thrive in jumping events.
After all, even Jesse Owens walked before he ran.
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Billed as "the new Jesse Owens", Johnson was widely predicted to follow up his 200m worlds win of 1991 with 200m and 4x400m relay golds at the Barcelona Olympics the following year.
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And as you get to this history that I described in the book, you understand that every single victory was attained through a collective movement, whether it was Jackie Robinson or Jesse Owens, there was always a team effort.
And so will many other performances in a Games that sired 15 world records and added illustrious new names to an Olympic Hall of Fame that includes such legends as Jesse Owens, Emil Zatopek, Abebe Bikila and Sebas-tian Coe.
President Barack Obama's former constituency has put the finishing touches on a 560-page book that the grandson of Jesse Owens -- the first African-American to win four Olympic gold medals in track and field -- will hand deliver to the International Olympics Committee in Switzerland.
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