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Biography of Carl LewisName: Carl LewisBirth Date: July 1, 1961 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: track and field athlete Carl Lewis 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 event at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, winning his fourth gold medal in that event.Qualifying for the United States Olympic team every four years since 1980, athlete Carl Lewis has won nine Olympic gold medals in four different events and held world records in the 100-meter dash and the long jump. Lewis's long domination at the Olympics and other international events is particularly remarkable in light of his sport of choice--track and field. The grueling demands of sprinting, long jumping, and relays demand youth and vigor. Lewis has defied not only the stopwatch but the march of time and has become, in the words of fellow athlete Mike Powell in Sports Illustrated, "the best track and field …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Lyre and Alternating Current.1976: China's new leadership releases more than 100,000 political prisoners.1979: Court decision banning devaluation of inventories for tax purposes leads book publishers to destroy stocks.1982: Film stars Romy Schneider, Henry Fonda, Ingrid Bergman and Grace Kelly die.1985: Top non-fiction books: Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, by J. Anthony Lukas; The Good War, by Studs Terkel.1988: Washington beats Denver 42-10 in Super Bowl XXII.1991: Earvin "Magic" Johnson announces that he has the AIDS virus. Further Reading booksLewis, Carl, and Jeffrey Marx, Inside Track: My Professional Life in Amateur Track and Field, S and S Trade, 1990.The Olympics Factbook: A Spectator's Guide to the Winter and Summer Games, Visible Ink Press, 1992.periodicalsEsquire, April 1983.Inside Sports, August 1984.Newsweek, August 20, 1984; July 27, 1992.New York Times Magazine, June 17, 1984; July 19, 1992.Time, June 17, 1996.Philadelphia Daily News, July 26, 1984; August 2, 1984; January 25, 1985; July 23, 1985; June 3, 1988; June 25, 1992; August 7, 1992.Sports Illustrated, August 17, 1992.Washington Post Magazine, July 22, 1984. |