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Context. Tens of thousands of pigeons were released during the opening ceremony of the 1936 Olympic Games. The claim that these birds pooped on the athletes after they were scared by ceremonial ...

The 1936 Olympics were hailed as a success throughout the world. Attempts to boycott the Games in the United Sates and other parts of the democratic world because of the brutal behavior of the ...

Hitler’s 1936 Olympics antics are a lesson for helping China’s Uyghurs by Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, opinion contributors - 04/07/21 7:00 AM ET ...

The aw-inspiring moment of the UW rowing team winning the 1936 Olympics in Berlin comes to life in the upcoming film 'The Boys in the Boat.' ...

As Tumin says, “it’s no coincidence that sex testing began at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Nazi Germany.” A condensed transcript edited for clarity is republished below with permission.

The 1936 Olympic Games are remembered today because Adolf Hitler was forced to watch an African American track and field star win four gold medals in Berlin. Hitler had seen the Olympics as a way ...

American Jesse Owens’ achievements at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin — he won four gold medals in the 100 meters, the 200m, the 4x100m relay, and the long jump — made him a track and field great.

“There was no torch relay like this in ancient times,” David Clay Large, a history professor, historian of modern Germany and author of Nazi Games: The 1936 Berlin Olympics, told USA TODAY Sports.

Entering the 1936 Olympics, Hitler — whose antisemitic manifesto “Mein Kampf” had been published 11 years earlier — allowed Mayer to represent Germany as the country’s token Jew, ...

As the 2024 Paris Olympics quickly approach, the new book PLAYED: The Games of the 1936 Berlin Olympics illustrates just how significant and historic the sporting world can be.