Carl Lewis
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 18: Former United States Olympic athletes Carl Lewis (L), Greg Louganis (R) and Shannon Miller (2nd L) raise an American Flag withcurrent track and field athlete Allyson Felix during the Team USA Road to London 100 Days Out Celebration in Times Square on April 18, 2012 in New York City.
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They know they're competing for the same marbles but they understand that rivalry in sport doesn't necessarily mean being enemies. Maurice Greene and Ato Boldon trained together and had great success. Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell and Joe DeLoach came from the same camp. So this is not new.
We've had every kind of weather there is. Carl Lewis actually shoveled sleet from the track, from his lane, one year to help run, you know, but the show goes on ... We finally got disgusted with people saying that, and so we put a page in the program listing the weather for all of the 102 relays and the weather has been good 2/3 of the time.
Our parents left a wonderful opportunity for their children, which is us ... It's our responsibility to keep those expectations high. We have an opportunity to keep Dr. King's dream alive by encouraging the best in all of us.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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First lady has plan to get kids involved in sports
-- Michelle Obama remembers sitting in front of her television many years ago and watching Mary Lou Retton , Nadia Comaneci and Carl Lewis as they competed in the Summer Olympics."Like so many others," she said, "I was awed and inspired by those athletes." Read more »
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Nets play last N.J. home game, next stop Brooklyn
men, and from Vince Carter , Kenyon Martin and Brian Scalabrine .Monday night also was an occasion to remember the night Carl Lewis mangled the national anthem and the time when Charles Barkley of the 76ers spat at a heckler and hit a little girl instead. Read more »
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Kidsday interviews track great Carl Lewis
We met Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis at the Hershey's Store in Manhattan. The champion sprinter and long jumper is the celebrity ambassador for the 35th annual Hershey's Track and Field Games. Read more »
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Owens, Lewis lead way into new IAAF Hall of Fame
after he won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and showed up Adolph Hitler's idea of Aryan supremacy.Owens joined Carl Lewis, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and nine others as the first athletes to be honored by the IAAF in the newly created Hall of Fame. Read more »
Around the web
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Highlights of a live chat with Carl Lewis
Lewis, winner of nine Olympic gold medals in track and field, talked about his favorite memories, the London Games and much more in a live chat Tuesday with readers. Q: Of all the Olympic medals you won, which one was the most special? Lewis: The first and 5/29/12 from The Seattle Times Read more »
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It's Not a Slam but the Olympics Are Major
The day before her first match, Evert said she walked around the Olympic Village, starstruck by Florence Griffith-Joyner and Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson. She watched the gymnasts. She felt like a fan; here were all these athletes she watched on television. from The New York Times Read more »
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Hotter the battle, sweeter the victory
rivalry with Carl Lewis like? Anyone who wants to beat me is a rival. What was good about the rivalry in my era was that Carl Lewis, Frankie Fredericks, Denis Mitchell were all characters in the sport. You got there and you never knew who was going to win. from The Hindu Read more »
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Other Sports: Shunned for a lack of glamour
as a kid. So much so that I badly injured my knee trying to recreate the long jump in 1984 on our driveway: I was being Carl Lewis, in case you were wondering. It turns out that there is a good reason why the guys land on soft sand and not hard concrete. I from Sunday Sun Read more »
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Olympics moment: The athlete who defines essence of human spirit
Carl Lewis and Daley Thompson — or even more recently, Usain Bolt — Derek Redmond is not a name that conjures up memories of Olympic gold medals or world records. Redmond, however, defines the essence of the human spirit. He arrived at the 1992 Olympic Games from DNA India Read more »
