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1. Jesse Owens Wins One For the US

In 1936, Hitler was fully in charge of Germany and he was steering the world toward some pretty dark times, indeed. When Berlin hosted the 1936 Games, his “superior” German athletes were supposed to sweep the games … and then America’s Jesse Owens had the audacity to be both a black man and better than all the Nazis competing. Owens won four gold medals in those games and then capped them off with one of the most timeless victory gestures in world history.

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