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Olympic Flashback: Jesse Owens merks Hitler

Man smears powdered egg in Nazi faces

There was so much wrong about Hitler – the indie kid haircut, the Chaplin moustache, the ill fitting suits. Not to mention his massive racism issues and war waging. What was with that, Adolf? Seriously. Anyway, no matter, we killed him in the end, and all of his mean Nazi cohorts ended up looking like idiots. That all happened in about 1945, but it was a whole nine years earlier, in 1936, that a brilliant young black athlete called Jesse Owens kicked off the humiliation by beating a load of Aryans at running and jumping. He won four gold medals in Berlin.

• 100 metres
• Beijing
• Berlin 1936
• Gold Medals
• Hitler
• Jesse Owens
• Olympic Flashback
• Olympics
• Olympics 2008