Lewis, Carl (1961—)
The son of two Willingboro, New Jersey, teachers, Carl Lewis went from being an awkward teenager to winning ten Olympic Gold medals before he retired in 1997, setting numero...
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In the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Carl Lewis (born 1961) became the first athlete, since Jesse Owens in 1936, to win four gold medals in Olympic competition. In 1996 he competed in the long jump ev...
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For most of the 1980s, no one could outrun or outjump Carl Lewis. He was the number-one-ranked 100- and 200- meter sprinter and long jumper in the world. As world record holder in the 100-meter dash, ...
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - Carl Lewis bettered the 100 metres world
record, but a long jump defeat against Mike Powell is the lasting
memory from the first time that the world ath...
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Monte Carlo (dpa) - American sprint star Tyson Gay and Ethiopian
Meseret Defar were on Sunday crowned World Athletes of the Year in
the sport of athletics.
Ga...
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - World records (WR), 2007 best results (YB)
and defending world champions from 2005 (DC) in athletics. All data
as of August 17.
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - Tyson Gay aims to join an elite group of
sprinters including Jesse Owens, Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene to win
a major championship double on Thursday w...
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - Anyone looking for potential stars at the
world athletics championships should have popped by at the media
events of one particular equipment company.
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - Mike Powell and Carl Lewis got a first-hand
view how Irving Saladino and Andrew Howe all but upstaged them for
drama.
And they definitely...
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Osaka, Japan (dpa) - Tyson Gay entered the sprint pantheon as the
latest United States superstar, transforming himself from a
challenger to the man to beat with an impressiv...
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Al Oerter, the discus great who won gold medals in four straight Olympics to become one of track and field's biggest stars in the 1950s and '60s, died Monday of heart failure. He was 71.Oerter died...
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BEIJING, Feb 4 (Reuters) - American Tyson Gay, who has
targeted a rare sprint double success at the Beijing Olympics,
offered a "100 percent guarantee" on Monday that he will never
test positive f...
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A sunny winter day and a slickly produced film welcomed the U.S. Olympic Committee's evaluation committee Thursday during a two-day visit to decide whether Los Angeles will be the U.S. candidate to...
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EMBARGOED for release at 1900 GMTROUNDUP: Tyson Gay and Meseret Dafar are World Athletes of the Year
Lewis, Carl (1961—)
Carl Lewis
Carl Lewis
