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Article: The Carl Lewis Story: In '88, Talking of '84
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- The Washington Post
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- July 26, 1988
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Our conversation with Carl Lewis begins shortly after the world's
greatest track and field star was bumped from "Late Night With David
Letterman" on NBC, the network of the Summer Olympics, in favor of
Iggy Pop. After changing from his Letterman outfit-an oddly muted
gray and tan floral print suit that looked like it once may have
covered a couch-into black stretch pants and a Toll House brown
shirt, crisply buttoned at the neck, Lewis repairs to a Chinese
restaurant, where he talks about his career for almost two hours. We
pick it up in 1984, beginning on that fateful August evening when
Lewis won the long jump, but lost the hearts and minds of the
American public.
You'll remember that ...