Carl Lewis
even to train in 100 m and in 1979 he run 10"67.
Only boycott prevented him to be at the Olympic games of Moscow the following year. In
Eugene he gained the ticket for the long jump (2nd with 8,01 m) and 4x100 m relay (4th in
100 m). He improved a lot in 100 m, running 10"21 s while in the long jump he landed at 8,11
m.
Then in 1981, the year of his great explosion, a lot of things changed. He settled to Houston,
accepting the invite of Tom Tellez, who was among the most famous trainers, and frequents a
course of telecommunications at university. At Dallas, in the same day, he wins 100 m
stopping chronometers on 10"00, the best time at sea level of ever, and then wins 200 m
(20"73) and long jump (8,25)! Then he becomes the national champion at Sacramento in 100
m (beating Sanford and Floyd) and long jump, where with the measure of 8,62 m sets the new
the universitary record. Towards the end of the season at Zurich he still has the energies to
jump 8,52 m against an opposite wind of 2,2 m/s
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