Eighty years ago this month, the United States competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, with 18 African-American athletes part of the U.S. squad. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Track star Jesse Owens, one of the greatest Olympians of all time, won four gold medals. What the 17 other African-American Olympians did in Berlin, though, […]
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African-Americans etched historic mark on U.S. Olympic speed skating team | New York Amsterdam News
Speed skating, like most Winter Olympic sports, has long been devoid of sizable representation by African-Americans and people of color.
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7 Traditional African Sports that Should Be in the Olympics
The Olympic Games may go back 3,000 years to Ancient Greece, but the international sporting event that takes place every four years didn’t take on its modern form until 1896.
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