85 year ago, Jesse Owens enjoyed the “greatest 45 minutes ever in sports” as he set 4 WRs in 45 minutes

6 world records in 45 minutes

His LJ was great, but Eulace Peacock was faster.

Both amazing athletes.

That LJ though...in that gear...on that dirt...?

Both amazing athletes.

That LJ though...in that gear...on that dirt...?

The monument on Ferry Field to Jesse Owens and that day has always moved me - a permanent recognition and honoring of an Ohio State athlete’s athletic prowess on the University of Michigan’s ground in perpetuity. The magnitude of that, maybe humorous to those not indoctrinated with the existential animosity against the institution, should not be taken lightly.

That his accomplishments superseded the viscous, irrational hatred between these two populations is in itself a poetic exemplification of his role in the arc of society. But it’s also more: it speaks more broadly to what sport is as an ideal and what it can be at it’s best. It’s a battlefield where human bodies can be tested and tried against each other, and where triumphs and failures carry profound meaning to all observers, irrespective of creed or allegiance, because they occur in a context to which all can relate , imagine, and internalize.

When the dust settles on a great triumph, observers on both sides can be fundamentally moved because it was not a Buckeye or a Wolverine or a black person or a white person or a man or a woman, it was a human being doing something incredible with his body - a body that we all, exponentially more similar than not, inhabit. Jesse Owen was a fellow human being showing us that our collective species has greater capacity than what we had known 45 minutes prior.

84th anniversary.

Only in track and field. Shame that for the popularity of our sport the average mouth breather would not rather yell and scream about their hatred for the rival on the football field.

What a shame these guys had such short careers back then, pretty much just college guys. Jesse Owens at the 1940 Olympics? Yes I know.

Never have really figured out what the exact situation was when it came to Jesse vs Temple's Eulace Peacock in the 100. I have read 7 of 10 Peacock, have read 5 in a row wins Peacock, but...???

Owens ran that 9.4 WR six times, Peacock a 9.5PR, Owens ran a 10.2WR, Peacock twice ran a 10.3WR. Both only winning our Nationals once (Ralph Metcalf in the mix)

I do think this is very realistic......

1936 Olympics with a healthy Eulace Peacock, Peacock does win a medal in the 100m, which one is...? He wins the silver in the long jump, and runs a leg on that gold medal 4x1 instead of Foy Draper.

Would like to have seen....

Jesse Owens....Ralph Metcalf...Mack Robinson...Eulace Peacock

.....old Adolf would have love that, ha!

how was the 200/220 hurdles codified? # of hurdles and height?