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@[]#ATHLETICS FEAT COMES OF AGE###MORE RECORDS FOR THE AMAZING OWENS
At the age of 46 Owens was still incredibly fast, as he proved when he apprehended a man attempting to break into his car. The man had a 30-yard start, but it was not enough; Owens quickly caught him, and handed him to the police#Jesse Owens was born James Cleveland Owens. When starting at school a teacher asked him his name he replied: "J. C. Owens"; the teacher misheard the J.C. as Jesse, and the name stuck#Jesse Owens had a varied career after athletics; he worked as a disc jockey, a promoter for the Harlem Globetrotters, an insurance broker and finally as a successful public relations manager#When his four Olympic gold medals were stolen from an exhibition, the same German foundry which had made all the medals for the Berlin Olympics minted a special set of replacements for Owens#Owens' long jump record lasted 25 years before it was beaten by Ralph Boston; it had stood longer than any other world record#As an African American Owens was aware of the deeper irony of his triumph over Hitler's racist creed: "After coming back from the Olympics," he said, "I couldn't even ride in the front of a bus. I had to go to the back door."#Owens returned to Germany in 1972 to watch the Munich Olympics. He said he bore no hard feelings
