Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd and bounced around the stadium, all eyes where he wanted them. The margin of victory, one-fifth of a second, tied the largest in Olympic 100 history. He cracked 10, but missed the 9.93 world record by .06 sec. Then his gaze shifted to the long jump, the 200 and the relay, to Jesse Owens certainly, maybe even Bob Beamon. The miraculous jump of 29 ft. 2½ in. might still be 4 in. beyond him, but it may be that nothing is beyond him. As the XXIII Olympiad turns for home, his medals will mark the rest...
Though he was raised in New Jersey, Carl Lewis' inner thermostat always registers cool. Lewis loves to run and jump when it is hot. The hotter it is, the better he feels. On this humid Tuesday afternoon, as Lewis prepares for his final workout, the stands at the Santa Monica track are empty save for the security guards who only have eyes for stray spectators trying to pass through the chain-link fence. A female hurdler sprints along one side of the track. Lewis, his coach Tom Tellez, and Carl's friend Kirk Baptiste, a University of Houston...
...slow to start his workout. His warmup is usually a slow jog once around the track. He spends a lot of time talking and walking, slowly. Lewis grabs the tape measure and stretches it 171 ft. along the track, the distance of his approach for the long jump. This is the first activity of most workouts. But Lewis does not normally jump in practice; he merely runs through the paces of his approach. This final workout lasts 40 min. During that time, he takes only three runs. He is in action for a scant total of 30 sec. But Tellez...
...essential aim is to keep Carl's life as close to normal as possible. To provide some of the insulation of home, his family has set up house in Los Angeles. Mother Evelyn, Father Bill and Sister Carol, who will probably earn a medal in the long jump, are staying with him in a two-story white stucco house on a residential street six miles from the Los Angeles Coliseum. The house is a haven where Lewis can be himself, by himself. If he wants to, as he did one day last week, he can simply lounge around...
While many TV viewers have concerned themselves for these past two weeks with such transitory matters as whether Carl Lewis will set a new world record in the long jump or Mark Breland will take an Olympic gold in boxing, others have focused on questions of more fundamental import: Will Beth stay with Lujack or return to Phillip? Can Jenny recover from the explosion that nearly killed her? Will Julie and Tyler be able to adopt Scotty? And where is Ryan's Hope...