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The magnificent runner Jesse Owens didn’t spend his youth running 10 miles a day, training hard at a prestigious school, or doing 100 crunches or sit-ups a day. It never happened that way he spent his times as a young boy bagging groceries, loading freight cars, or shining shoes. One day in East Cleveland Technical School he was in gym class and the students were being timed in the sixty-yard dash. Of course there were runners that ran a tenth or even a second faster then the other kids. Coach Charlie Riley was sitting in the chair timing the other boys but then he saw the amazing raw talent and his eyes practically pooped out of his head described by Jesse’s fellow peer. He was so over whelmed with this boy’s ability immedia