Jesse Owens

US President Barack Obama welcomed relatives of Jesse Owens and 17 other black Americans who competed at the 1936 Olympics to the White House on Thursday, 80 years after they were denied the honor.

Jesse Owens won gold in the 100- and 200-meters, 400 relay and long jump at the 1936 Berlin Games attended by Adolf Hitler, who used the Olympics to showcase his ideas of Aryan racial supremacy only to watch African-American athletes dominate the track and field events.

Owens' achievements at the 1936 Berlin Games are the stuff of Olympic legend. He won gold in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump.

One person died on Thursday as two helicopters collided over Berlin's iconic Olympic Stadium during a police security exercise for operations against football hooligans, authorities said.

Jesse Owens assured himself a place in sports history when he won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, thwarting Adolf Hitler's hopes of using the Games to prove his theory of Aryan superiority.

In the 1984 Los Angeles Games, Carl Lewis matched Jesse Owens' achievement of winning four gold medals with victories in the 100m, the 200m, the long jump and the 4x100m relay.

Sprinters Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards earned their second Jesse Owens Awards on Thursday as USA Track & Field's athletes of the year.

Sprinters Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards earned their second Jesse Owens Awards on Thursday as USA Track & Field's athletes of the year.

US President Barack Obama welcomed relatives of Jesse Owens and 17 other black Americans who competed at the 1936 Olympics to the White House on Thursday, 80 years after they were denied the honor.

Jesse Owens won gold in the 100- and 200-meters, 400 relay and long jump at the 1936 Berlin Games attended by Adolf Hitler, who used the Olympics to showcase his ideas of Aryan racial supremacy only to watch African-American athletes dominate the track and field events.

Owens' achievements at the 1936 Berlin Games are the stuff of Olympic legend. He won gold in the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump.

One person died on Thursday as two helicopters collided over Berlin's iconic Olympic Stadium during a police security exercise for operations against football hooligans, authorities said.

Jesse Owens assured himself a place in sports history when he won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, thwarting Adolf Hitler's hopes of using the Games to prove his theory of Aryan superiority.

In the 1984 Los Angeles Games, Carl Lewis matched Jesse Owens' achievement of winning four gold medals with victories in the 100m, the 200m, the long jump and the 4x100m relay.

Sprinters Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards earned their second Jesse Owens Awards on Thursday as USA Track & Field's athletes of the year.

Sprinters Tyson Gay and Sanya Richards earned their second Jesse Owens Awards on Thursday as USA Track & Field's athletes of the year.