Carl Lewis
century, who formerly won about 20 gold medals in four different events (100 m, 200 m,
long jump and 4x100 relay), is called Carl, which is a nick that hides his true identity:
Frederick Carlton Lewis.
He was born on 1st July 1961 in Birmingham, Alabama, the same country of Jesse Owens
for the will of doom: in fact his parents lived there fleetingly owing to their job. Third of five
sons, he spent his childhood in Willingboro together with his younger sister Carol, Bill, his
dad and Evelyn, his mother. Since his first years of life he could breath the soft and clean air
of sport: his father used to train athletes at university and his mother was 6th at 80 m hurdles
in the Pan-American games of 1951.He saw the Olympic games of 1968 on TV and could
admire Bob Beamon: he was so impressed that after the jump of 8,90 m he went out with a
friend to take the length of a limousine in order to realize how far Bob flied
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