Two Sporting Heroes
Billie Jean KING 
Jesse Owens 
In 1936, the Olympic Games were in Berlin, in Nazi Germany, and Adolf Hitler, the German Leader, wanted to show his country and his political ideas to the world.
Billie Jean King was an American tennis player in the 1960s and 1970s.
Hitler belived that white people were better than other "Races", but an american athlete demonstrated in a spectacular way that this was not true!
Jesse Owens was a 22-year-old black American athlete.
He was born in 1913 in Alabama, he was a grandson of an Africn slave.
He became one of the Usa's greatets athlets.
In 1935 he broke three world records in an hour in the University of Michigan.
In 1936, at Berlin Olympics Games, Jesse Owens won four gold medals. 
200 metres sprint
Long Jump
100 metres sprint
400 metres relay
Owens showed that Hitler's ideas about race are wrong
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Jesse Owens was the most succeful athlete of the Olympics Games and he become a legend.
Jesse Owens was died in 1980 in Tucson,Arizona
The most important tennis tournments are called "Grand Slam"
the French Open or Roland Garros 
Wimbledon (UK) 
Australian Open 
The US Open 
In her carreer, she won 39 2Grand Slam" and 6 Wimbledon
She did a lot help for woman in the sport in 1970s, because the women don't have same opportunites and same pay of the men.
In the 1973, a retired male yennis champion, challenged Billie Jean King to a tennis match.
He think that a woman couldn't win a tennis match against a man.
Billie Jean King won the match and in the same year she started the Women's Tennis Association.
In 2006 the american Tennis National Centre (The home of US Open)was re-named :"Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre". 
