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Men With Mojo Video Profile on Jesse Owens: #45


coming up next on the list of athletes
with mojo is James Cleveland Jesse Owens
bore in September 12 1913 died March
thirty first nineteen eighty he lived a
great long time most famous for his
exploits in 1936 but before that we’re
going to get to something else in a span
of 45 minutes in 1935 at the Big Ten
meet and ann arbor michigan he tied the
record for the hundred-meter dash he
said world records in the long jump the
220 yard dash and the 220 yard hurts
this is probably one of the greatest
athletic achievements of the 20th
century help of any century but let’s
get on to what he did later in life
Jesse Owens Shawn at the 19 36 Olympics
where Hitler was sitting there going
well we’re gonna show the world that
Aryan athletes are better a lot Jesse
Owens kick his ass for that and that
alone forget about Ann Arbor forget
about all the other records forget about
the fact that he had an extraordinary
life and get a lot of money to charity
and was always there for causes that’s
why he’s on this list
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