Roosevelt didn’t get involved in the debate over the Berlin Games — a stark contrast to President Jimmy Carter’s decision 44 years later to boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow in response to ...

but two American Jews would individually boycott the Berlin Olympics. Hitler tried to capitalize on the event as a showcase of Nazi-led Germany to the world. Germany would be the most successful ...

The 1936 Olympics in Berlin were a propaganda coup for the Nazis. During the opening ceremonies, the Olympic torch was carried past rows of Hitler Youth. Photograph via Getty Still, the boycott ...

The 920 delegates to the conference yesterday heard Mayor La Guardia add his voice to the anti-Berlin-Olympics chorus with an attack on the Nazi government for its persecution of the Jews.

But the telling is seldom as thorough, or thoughtful, as it is in “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics,” which ... City in 1968 rather than join a boycott over civil unrest in the ...

Berlin formally presented its bid to rehost the Olympics on Tuesday in the same stadium where Jesse Owens starred during the ...

Neither Jesse’s achievements in Berlin nor any words ... among them – refused to join the boycott. The politics Carter hoped to keep out of the Olympics are now endemic to the Games.

Berlin 1936 was the first televised Games ... the first perfect 10 in history on the uneven bars. A quiet Olympics, after a boycott led by US president Jimmy Carter against the 1979 Soviet ...

Israeli table tennis player David Carsanti was supposed to compete on Monday morning against an Iranian player as part of the Special Olympics in Berlin. But when the Israeli athlete showed up to ...

BERLIN, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The families of Israeli athletes murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics plan to boycott a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the attack in a row with German ...