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Jesse Owens
James Cleveland 'Jesse' Owens was born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama, the son of sharecroppers and the grandson of slaves. When Jesse was nine years old, his family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, as part of the Great Migration, seeking better opportunities in the industrial North. It was in Cleveland where young Jesse's exceptional athletic talents were first recognized.
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Caster Semenya is one of the most dominant middle-distance runners in the history of track and field, a two-time Olympic gold medalist whose extraordinary talent and remarkable career have been accompanied by complex and often contentious debates about gender, biology, and fairness in sport. Born on January 7, 1991, in Ga-Masehlong, a village in the Limpopo province of South Africa, Semenya grew up in modest circumstances and discovered her running ability through school athletics, quickly establishing herself as a prodigy whose speed over 800 meters far exceeded that of her peers.
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