The U.S. national basketball teams have dominated at the Olympics. Here's every gold medalist since basketball debuted as a medal event in 1936.

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin – he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the ...

He qualified for his second Olympics in 1936 in Berlin, where he earned his third and fourth Olympic medals.

Lewis won four of his gold medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. No athlete had accomplished that feat since Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games.

A new record was set in the sports memorabilia auction world over the weekend, as a silver medal from the 1936 Berlin Olympics sold for a record-breaking $488,435. SCP Auctions, via ESPN, said the ...

The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000, a sum the auction house said was a ...

The Berlin Olympics of 1936 was the perfect venue for the regime to demonstrate Nazi superiority while the world was watching (or listening on the radio). Jesse Owens shattered that conceit.

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of memorabilia from previous Games.

In 2013, one of Jesse Ownes' four 1936 Berlin Olympics gold medals sold for $1,466,574, which became the most expensive Olympic item ever sold at an auction at a time.

German long jumper Luz Long's silver medal from the 1936 Berlin Olympics has been put up for auction. It is more historically significant than the typical Olympic medal, as Long celebrated the ...

At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where legendary runner Jesse Owens registered what many called a “blow to the Nazi myth of Aryan supremacy” by winning four gold medals (100 meters, 200 meters ...

When was basketball first played at the Olympics? Basketball became a medal sport for men at the Berlin 1936 Olympics and for women at the Montreal 1976 Olympics.