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In a stadium built by Adolf Hitler as a celebration of the Third Reich, the 1936 Olympic performance of Jesse Owens will be honored when the world championships are held in Berlin from Aug. 15-23. Owens became the first American track athlete to win four gold medals at one Olympics and, in the process, made a mockery of Nazi claims of Aryan supremacy. Owens’ granddaughter, Marlene Hemphill Dortch, will be there as USA Track and Field, along with the IAAF and the Berlin Organizing Committee, pays tribute to Owens, who died in 1980 of lung cancer. The organizations also will honor German long jump great Luz Long, who befriended Owens at the Berlin Games. The Associated Press
