Olympic Legends: From Jesse Owens To Bob Beamon - Part 2

Bob Beamon flying to a long jump world record at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico (Credit: AFP)

AFP continues its look back at the history of the Olympics to pick out some of the legends that have lit up the Games.

Owens, an African-American, exploded the Nazi-propagated myth of racial superiority at the age of 22, when he won four athletics gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics under the nose of Adolf Hitler.