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Lewis qualified for the American team for the 1980 Olympics in the long jump and as a member of the 4 × 100 m relay team. [4] The Olympic boycott precluded Lewis from competing in Moscow, Russia; he instead participated in the Liberty Bell Classic in July 1980, which was an alternate meet for boycotting nations.
These are the official results of the 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.There were a total number of 29 nations competing. [1]U.S. team who was defending the gold medal won in Los Angeles was favored to win the event, but fumbled an exchange in a heat and was disqualified.
American track legend Carl Lewis, who has long been calling for a coaching overhaul on the men's side, took to social media to condemn the program's repeated failure to meet the moment.
United States (Emmit King, Willie Gault, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis) 38.50 Q East Germany (Andreas Knebel, Thomas Schröder, Jens Hübler, Frank Emmelmann) 38.95 Q West Germany (Werner Bastians, Christian Haas, Jürgen Evers, Andreas Rizzi) 39.13 Q Jamaica (George Walcott, Ray Stewart, Leroy Reid, Colin Bradford) 39.18 Q
Olympic great Carl Lewis went scorched-earth on USA Track and Field and its coaches after the men’s 4x100 relay team botched a handoff to get disqualified from the Paris Olympics final Friday.
After that failure, the legendary Carl Lewis called it a "total embarrassment." Friday, he went even further. "It is time to blow up the system," Lewis posted on X. "This continues to be ...
Sam Graddy, Ron Brown, Calvin Smith, Carl Lewis: 38.89 2 West Germany (FRG) Christian Zirkelbach, Peter Klein, Jürgen Evers, Ralf Lübke: 39.04 3 France (FRA) Antoine Richard, Jean-Jacques Boussemart, Marc Gasparoni, Bruno Marie-Rose: 40.04 4 Senegal (SEN) Mamadou Sène, Hamidou Diawara, Saliou Seck, Charles-Louis Seck: 40.15 5 Thailand (THA)
The Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 7 men's 100m runners from the U.S., with weeks of practice to facilitate three perfect exchanges, are better than basically every other country's top 4.