EXCLUSIVE 'If people say I was on drugs I get it, but I was better than anyone else,' says outspoken Athletics legend CARL LEWIS...
as he gives both barrels to the youth of today and calls out 'childish' Daley Thompson Athletics legend Carl Lewis is one of a few athletes to win nine Olympic medals During his career, he clashed with Daley Thompson and was accused of doping Today he owns a hotel in the Bahamas and coaches the University of Houston By David Coverdale Published: 22:30, 25 May 2024 | Updated: 22:30, 25 May 2024 e-mail View comments Forty years after he announced himself as the fastest man on the planet, Carl Lewis still shows no signs of slowing down. ‘Every year I do something I never thought I would, something crazy,’ says the nine-time Olympic champion. ‘I tried to bench press 300lbs (136kg) when I turned 60.
I sky dived at 61. I’m 62 and I want to do a split. At 63, I am going to scuba dive 63ft.
’ Lewis has already got a goal in mind for when he is 67 — lighting the Olympic flame at Los Angeles 2028. ‘I don’t want to say too much because then they probably won’t do it,’ he says. ‘But it would just be amazing for me to do that.
’ The American seems the obvious candidate. After all, he was the man who lit up LA the last time the Olympics were there in 1984, winning a famous four gold medals in the 100metres, 200m, 4x100m relay and long jump. Lewis was just 23 then.
Now he is a grandfather approaching retirement age. Yet as he sits with Mai.
