The very sight of Berlin’s Olympic Stadium can trigger a complex mixture of awe and dread. For England’s players, whose predecessors performed the Nazi salute here in 1938, this eerie citadel serves ...

The 1936 Berlin Olympics was the start of a long-lasting bond between the families of American track and field legend Jesse Owens and German long jumper, Carl Ludwig Hermann "Luz" Long. Owens' ...

Luz Long's mantra that "sometimes you just have to follow your heart" is exactly what the German long jumper did in defying Nazi leaders by hugging Jesse Owens in one of sport's most iconic moments.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics are best remembered for Jesse Owens, who triumphed in a dramatic duel in the Olympic long jump against Germany's Luz... Was Jesse Owens' 1936 Long-Jump Story A Myth? The Track ...

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (AP) — The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for more than $488,000, a sum the ...

One of the most consequential Olympic medals ever awarded is on the auction block — the silver medal captured in 1936 by Germany’s Luz Long, the long jumper who walked arm in arm through the stadium ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.