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  1.                                  In 1936, Jesse became 
  2.                                  the first track-and-field 
  3.                                  athlete to win four gold 
  4.                                  medals at one Olympics. 
  5.                                  He won the 100-meter 
  6. and 200-meter dashes, the long jump, and
  7. ran the leadoff leg on the United StatesΓÇÖ
  8. winning 4 x 100-meter relay team.
  9.  
  10. Jesse was born in Alabama. His grand-
  11. parents had been slaves, and his parents
  12. were sharecroppers (farmers who work other
  13. peopleΓÇÖs land, usually because they canΓÇÖt
  14. afford to buy land of their own). When he was
  15. young, Jesse worked in the fields picking
  16. cotton. When he was 9, Jesse, his nine 
  17. older brothers and sisters, and his
  18. parents moved to Cleveland, Ohio.
  19. Because the Owens family was poor,
  20.  
  21.