Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about. Nine-time Olympic champion has been talking about track's doping problems for 30 years. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Please read the rules before joining the discussion. Three decades after his historic four-gold performance at the Los Angeles Games, Lewis remains as outspoken as when he was competing.
Setting out Carl Lewis's achievements in athletics is rather like documenting Shakespeare's literary highs or Einstein's contribution to physics: impossible to summarise in a sentence. He won nine Olympic golds across no fewer than four Olympics and four different events. He also won eight world championship golds. He was unbeaten in the long jump for 10 years, from to He broke the metres world record in
To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems. As usual, Carl Lewis is dressed somewhere between preposterous and defiant.
It was America vs. On the morning of September 24, as fans and journalists flocked to Seoul Olympic Stadium for the biggest moment of the Games, Sports Illustrated staff photographer Ron Modra was expecting a light day shooting a minor event away from the stadium. Modra pondered how he could take an original picture of the while competing against the hundreds of photographers already in the stadium. There were two potential drawbacks to his plan. First, Modra had never attempted such a shot before.