| American track-and-field athlete Carl Lewis qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in 1980 but did not compete, because of the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games. At the 1984 Games in Los Angeles, he won gold medals in the 100-metre (9.9 seconds) and 200-metre (19.8 seconds) races, the long jump (8.54 metres [28 feet 0.25 inch]), and the 4 × 100-metre relay. On this day Lewis became the third track-and-field athlete to win four gold medals in one Olympics, joining Americans Al Kraenzlein (1900) and ... |