Two twelve-year-old boys, one black and one white, train for and compete in the 400 meter race, but find it hard to become friends because of racial differences and their fathers' past relationship.
Beginning with the friendship Owens developed with his German rival in the 1936 summer Olympics, this book jumps back in time to describe Owens' impoverished childhood and his family's move north from Alabama to Ohio, followed by personal and career highlights. Numerous black-and-white photos accompany the text.
Presents volume six in a seventeen-volume series on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat sports injuries and focuses specifically in the area of field events such as the javelin, shot put, discus, high and long jumps, pole vault, and triple jump.
Profiles the lives and careers of Evelyn Ashford, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Gail Devers, and seven other Olympic gold medalists who won the 100, 200, or 400 meter dash.
A sharecropper's son, Jesse Owens was born when the world was on the brink of World War I, and attained Olympic glory with the world on the brink of World War II. He made world history at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin when Adolf Hitler was in power, winning four gold medals.
the untold story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
Schaap, Jeremy
2007
Presents a comprehensive analysis of the 1936 Olympic games hosted by Germany, America's threat to boycott the games, and the four Olympic gold medals won by African-American athlete Jesse Owens, whose performance crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.
"A survey of the highlights and legendary athletes--such as Jamaican Usain Bolt--of the Olympic sport of track and field, which has been part of the modern Summer Games since 1896"--Provided by Publisher.
When a heart condition threatens to curtail his friend Daryl's track career, Curt finds himself taking Daryl's place as lead contender for the conference championship and as the new obsession of Daryl's driven father.
