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Article: CARL LEWIS' LAST HURRAH IN GAMES BEGINS TONIGHT.(Special Pullouts)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 28, 1996
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Byline: Joe Concannon The Boston Globe
ATLANTA -- The Olympian journey began in a serious vein for Carl Lewis when he was a teen-aged prodigy at the Willingboro Track Club in southern New Jersey, and it reaches its curtain call in the Centennial Games. He'll be up for the qualifying round of the long jump tonight to start the countdown to the last hurrah of his global career.
This is the fifth time Lewis has made a US Olympic team, spanning 15 years of unmatched excellence in the sprinting / jumping disciplines that began in 1980 when Jimmy Carter's boycott of the Games kept American athletes at home. The stops in between included a four-gold-medal ...