Muhammad Ali honoured with first Jesse Owns Olympic Spirit award
Q. The first Jesse Owen Olympic Spirit Award will honour which boxing legend?- Published on 26 Sep 16a. Muhammad Ali
b. Cassius Clay
c. Mike Tyson
d. Both a and b
ANSWER: Both a and b
The first Jesse Owens Olympic Spirit Award will recognise the late legendary boxer Muhammad Ali.
Owens award was started in 2016
- It marks the 80th anniversary of Jesse Owen’s 4 gold medal performance at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
- It is going to honour people who have served as an inspiration
- Granddaughter of the famous athlete Jesse Owens, Margaret Dotch will present the award at the next week’s Best of the Games award ceremony to Ali’s wife Lonnie
- Ali won the gold medal at the Rome 1960 Olympics
- He also took 3 world heavyweight championships in 1964, 1974 and 1978
- James Cleveland Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who crushed Hilterian myth of Aryan supremacy
- He was the most successful athlete at the games
- He set three world records and tied another in less than an hour at 1935 Big Ten Track meet in Ann Arbour Michigan, called the “greatest 45 minutes ever in sports”
- His record has never been equalled
- At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, he won 4 gold medals including 100 and 200m long jump
