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Jesse Owens (Buckeye Bullet, 4 Time Olympic Gold Medalist, 8-time NCAA Champion)

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New exhibit at Thompson to honor Jesse Owens, feature gold medals
By Ritika Shah
[email protected]
Published: Monday, January 7, 2013

The ?Faster, Higher, Stronger? exhibit featuring Olympian Jesse Owens is scheduled to run at William Oxley Thompson Library from Jan. 9 to May 5.

Jesse Owens? Olympic accomplishments are set to be honored Spring Semester at Ohio State, where he used to attend school before reaching international fame.

Owens was a U.S. track and field legend who broke world records in 1936 by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.

OSU plans to honor the athlete that inspired so many others with an exhibit titled, ?Faster, Higher, Stronger ? Jesse Owens: 100 Years of Life and Legacy.?

The exhibit is scheduled to run from Jan. 9 to May 5 at the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library Gallery and will feature Owens? Olympic gold medals as well as his Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal ? the two highest civilian awards presented in the United States. Other key attractions include the 1936 Olympic torch, a WOSU documentary and Owens? diary.

However, Owens isn?t just remembered for his talent on the track.

Marlene Owens Rankin, daughter of Jesse Owens, stated in an email to The Lantern that she believes her father?s humility, sense of fair play, sportsmanship and humanitarianism are what makes him the legend that he has become.

?My sisters and I are often struck by how long our father has been remembered not only for his athletic accomplishments but for who he was as a person,? Rankin said. ?Our hearts swell with pride to think that The Ohio State University honors him with this celebration of his life.?

University archivist Tamar Chute said the exhibit will highlight Owens? lasting impact on Olympic athletes.

One athlete who has felt his influence is Amanda Furrer, a fourth-year in economics who placed 15th in the 50-meter three-position rifle in the 2012 Olympics.
?Jesse Owens is a true American inspiration,? Furrer said. ?No matter what sport you?re in, he can be inspiring to all of us and we can all look up to him.?

Furrer provided material for the exhibit by donating her official awards outfit, opening ceremonies outfit and Olympic competitor pin. Furrer said that while she was excited to be a part of the whole experience, she was shocked and honored that the university wished to place her Olympic gear next to that of Jesse Owens.

While Tamar said the exhibit cost $2,000 to $2,500 to put together, there is no entry fee for visitors.
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http://www.thelantern.com/campus/ne...ns-feature-gold-medals-1.2970124#.UO1vYne4qGS
 
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Ohio State exhibition salutes Cleveland's Jesse Owens on the centennial of his birth
Bill Livingston, The Plain Dealer By Bill Livingston, The Plain Dealer
on January 16, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The old myths got it wrong. The shoe has no wings.

Mercury, the messenger god of the Romans, needed assistance in the form of winged sandals in getting his dispatches out on time. Jesse Owens delivered his message of athletic excellence, racial equality and human dignity in the 1930s, most unforgettably at Adolf Hitler's Berlin Olympics in 1936, without steroids or radically advanced equipment.

Performance-enhancing drugs hadn't been invented yet. Nor had cutting-edge running shoes.

The shoe, now bronzed, on display at the Ohio State exhibition, "Faster, Higher, Stronger -- Jesse Owens: 100 years of Life and Legacy,'' was worn by Owens in Ann Arbor, Mich., on May 25, 1935, when the sprinter from Cleveland set three world records and tied another in one afternoon at the Big Ten Championships. His long jump mark would last for 25 years. When Owens landed, it was as if he left a footprint on eternity.

Located in the William Oxley Thompson Library at 1811 Neil Ave. near Ohio Stadium, the exhibition honors the centennial of Owens' birth in 1913 in Alabama. It opened Jan. 9 and runs until May 5. Admission is free.

Raised in Cleveland, Owens was a great high school athlete at East Tech. He became the greatest athlete ever to pass through the doors at Ohio State or any Big Ten institution. USA Track and Field's highest award is named in his honor. That ignorant voters from the Big Ten Network put Owens third on the list of the conference's all-time athletic icons is an outrage, as I have written (tinyurl.com/4zarwur).

To OSU's credit, it does not hide the racial discrimination Owens faced as a Buckeye. Owens had no athletic scholarship, had to work while he was in college, had to live off-campus, and had to live and eat apart from the white members of the track team on trips. He entered Ohio State in 1933, after two African-American female students had been denied rooms in the Home Economics house.

At OSU, coach Larry Snyder quickened Owens' starts by teaching him to crouch tightly before the crack of the starter's pistol. Snyder also taught Owens to move his legs in the air on his jumps in an early form of the hitch kick. These refinements, along with Owens' ability to run smoothly and not "tie up" under pressure, made him track and field's greatest star.

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http://www.cleveland.com/livingston/index.ssf/2013/01/ohio_state_salutes_clevelands.html
 
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Best College Athletes of All Time

Owens' dominance as an Ohio State athlete can be seen in 45 minutes at the conference championship in 1935. He set world records in the 220-yard dash (20.3 seconds), the 220-yard low hurdles (22.6) and the long jump (26-feet-8-inches) and tied the world record in the 100-yard dash (9.4). A year later, he won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics.
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Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/ma...ollege-athletes-of-all-time/31/#ixzz2TeKSotNr
 
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That's a GREAT read for any track fan. It shows how just the right breaks can make or break an athletic career. Even as huge Jesse Owens fan it really made me feel for the opportunity Peacock missed due to injury and WW2 and wonder "what would have happened" at Berlin in 1936. It's always interesting to read these athletic stories from the first part of the 20th century and what they had to endure (meager or no pay, shoddy accommodations, racial discrimination)... a far cry from what today's elite athletes experience. Thanks for linking that muffler!
 
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Historic Owens medal to be auctioned

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One of the most famous Olympic medals is hitting the auction block.
SCP Auctions president David Kohler says his company has acquired one of the four gold medals won by Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and will sell it to the highest bidder on Dec. 7.

"If you could dream up items that you'd want to find and sell, this would be on the bucket list," Kohler said.
Kohler believes the medal could sell for more than $1 million, especially since he said the Owens family is unclear about the whereabouts of the other three gold medals.
"We think this a seven-figure piece," Kohler said. "We expect to see a good deal of international interest and could see some institutions bidding. This is so much bigger than a piece of sports memorabilia. It's a piece of history."

Entire article: http://espn.go.com/olympics/trackan...se-owens-1936-olympic-gold-medal-goes-auction

 
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http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/12/jesse-owens-olympic-medal/

Jesse Owens’ Olympic medal sells for nearly $1.5 million at auction
It's the most ever paid for a piece of memorabilia from the Games.

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One of the four gold medals won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Summer Olympics sold for $1,466,574 at an auction that ended early Sunday morning. It was the highest price ever paid for a piece of Olympic memorabilia.

It’s unknown which of Owens’ medals was auctioned on Sunday. There are no markings on the medal to indicate the event in which it was won and the whereabouts of the other three original medals are unknown. Ohio State, Owens’ alma mater, displays four replacement medals that were awarded 40 years after his Olympic triumph.

Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, was 23 when he famously traveled to Berlin and won four golds in front of Adolf Hitler. The former Ohio State track star finished first in the 100 and 200 meters, 4×100 meter relay and long jump.

The long jump may have been his most impressive feat. Owens was in danger of missing the finals after fouling on his first two jumps when he says he received advice on how to take off behind the board from German jumper Luz Long, a blonde-hair, blue-eyed athlete that was the ideal of Hitler’s theory of Aryan supremacy. At the time, Owens held the world record in the event that stood for 25 years. That distance of 8.13 meters would have won bronze at last summer’s London Olympics.

The auctioned medal had belonged to the estate of the wife of late entertainer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who was given the medal by Owens as a token of gratitude.
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From the archives:

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Jesse Owens
For the second time, Olympic great Jesse Owens graced the cover of the Wheaties cereal box. Owens was on the front following his historic performance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, becoming the first African-American to be presented on the famous cereal box. Owens was honored again in February 2003 with a special-edition package as part of celebrating Black History Month.
 
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Dryden said:
Incredibly clear footage of Owens' 100m heats at the 1936 Olympics. Looks like this is sourced from a well preserved print of Leni Riefenstahl's 1938 documentary Olympia.

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First, I loved watching this. Owens even took a peek, LOL....

Second - I am FARRRRRR away from being bigoted or racist....but as I channel my inner Chappelle.....
Looking at Owens, dude looked like he could have played receiver for you guys....he was put together.

Did they REALLY think that they could beat this brotha with a bunch of scrawny, pale fellas?!?
 
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