- Owens movie -Owens' daughter first visited Berlin in 1984, when the road next to the iconic stadium was renamed Jesse Owens Allee in tribute to her father. BERLIN - Eighty years after Jesse Owens won four medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, his daughter says Germany's Nazi leader Adolf Hitler refused to shake her father's hand. "He always said 'I didn't go to the Berlin Olympics to shake Hitler's hand'," the 77-year-old daughter told magazine Sport Bild. Owens died of lung cancer, aged 66, in 1980, but his daughter, Marlene Owens Rankin, says as far as she is concerned, her father never shook Hitler's hand. His achievements made a mockery of the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy and according to sporting folklore, Hitler refused to shake Owens hand, despite the American's historic display.

Source: Bangkok Post July 31, 2016 01:52 UTC