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As we prepare to be inundated with the strawberries and cream Instagram stories of Wimbledon, did you know the tennis tournament has a poignant place in gay history? Although you may be more familiar ...
The photographs from the visit and the rumours it generated would forever tarnish the former King's reputation.
Berlin formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympics on Tuesday in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the ...
Los Angeles is hosting the 2028 Olympics and Brisbane the 2032 Olympics ... win four gold medals in the 1936 Games, dealing a blow to Hitler's notions of racial superiority. Hitler was personally ...
At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Indian marathon runner CSA Swami, aged 22, kept German dictator Adolf Hitler waiting as he vowed to complete the marathon despite being far behind.
JTA — As nearly 30 million viewers tuned in for the waterborne opening ceremony at this summer’s Paris Olympics, it’s safe to bet that most were not thinking of Adolf Hitler. Malcolm ...
In a conversation with JTA, Gladwell explains Hitler’s lasting influence on the Olympics and gives his take on the veracity of calls to ban Israeli athletes from international competition.
We wanted to do something more than a recap of what happened during the 1936 Olympics. ... but provided us with an exclusive quote about the new season that they are calling “Hitler’s Olympics ...
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, in an ...
Aug. 1—Halito, Chim Achukma (Hello, how are you?) The Olympics are in full gear and Kim and I are loving it. The modern-era Olympics, which concerns us, was reborn in 1896 in Athens, Greece.
The Trans History Embedded in Hitler’s 1936 Olympics. On this episode of Edge of Sports, author Michael Waters joins the show to talk about his new book, The Other Olympians. Dave Zirin.