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Article: King Carl builds his sand castle one final time
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 30, 1996
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ATLANTA He departs as he should, a hero who has proved us wrong,
a pup of 35 who left younger men with faces full of sand and a
sprinter of gold shoes nearly speechless. When it appeared Carl
Lewis had stayed four years too long, he leaped one last time under
the fullest of moons Monday and flew farther than anyone else.
His triumphant exit from the Olympic Games, his Games for a
dozen years, couldn't have exploded with more drama. So fittingly,
the showman stole Atlanta and left with a flag and a grin, off to a
new fantasy of walking his dogs and chatting with the neighbors.
Only the U.S. discus thrower, Al Oerter, had won four Olympic gold
medals in the same event. Now he is joined by ...