The 1936 Olympic Games, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority. As it turned out, the most popular hero of the Games was the African American Sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals. 1936 saw the introduction of the torch relay, in which a lighted torch was carried from Olympia to the current site of the games.
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