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Article: Lewis lobbies to join 400-meter relay team
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 31, 1996
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ATLANTA Carl Lewis turned up the pressure on U.S. coaches Tuesday
to let him go for a record 10th gold medal on the 400-meter relay
team.
A day after winning the long jump to become just the fourth
person with nine Olympic golds, Lewis lobbied to become a late
replacement on the relay team.
Though he claimed he was not campaigning for himself, Lewis
pointed to an ESPN Internet poll in which 65 percent of respondents
said Lewis should be added to the relay team, an overwhelming
favorite for gold.
"People want me to run the relay and they think I have the right
to run," said Lewis, who has anchored six 400-meter relay teams to
world records. "That's where the pressure is coming from; ...