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Article: A SPORT IN SEARCH OF HEROES.(NEWS)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- May 21, 1996
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Byline: William E. Simon
Notable among America's national habits is our long and passionate love affair with great athletes. Along with superlative athletic skills, those many athletes firmly shared a common belief: that the greatest honor and responsibility that could be bestowed upon an American athlete was to be selected to represent the United States of America in competition with fine athletes from all over the world.
Perhaps the epitome of that belief was the great sprinter, Jesse Owens. Son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, this skinny teenager found that God had given him the gift of great agility and blinding speed. In an age blighted ...
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