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Powell fouled, and Lewis made his second best wind-legal jump of 8.84 m (29 ft 0.03 in). Thus the competition included three of the five best wind-legal long-jumps ever; two of them by Carl Lewis, plus a wind-aided jump by Lewis beyond the then world record (a record he had been chasing for ten years), yet Lewis still finished in second place.
Lewis was up against his main rival of the last few years, Mike Powell, the silver medalist in the event from the 1988 Olympics and the top-ranked long jumper of 1990. Lewis had at that point not lost a long jump competition in a decade, winning the 65 consecutive meets in which he competed.
The event is best-remembered for the men's long jump competition, when Carl Lewis made the best six-jump series in history, only to be beaten by Mike Powell, whose 8.95 m (29 ft 4.36 in) jump broke Bob Beamon's long-standing world record from the 1968 Summer Olympics.
During his professional career, Powell competed in the 1992–93 Foot Locker Slam Fest trying to dunk from the free throw line but failed. Mike Conley made a dunk from the free throw line and won the competition. [citation needed] After placing fifth in the long jump at the 1996 Olympics, Powell retired.
A proposed change to the long jump has stirred debate in the track and field community, so much so that even 9-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis has spoken out. Carl Lewis calls proposed ...
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 ...
This was the 22nd appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1988 Games were two-time gold medalist Carl Lewis and silver medalist Mike Powell of the United States, fourth-place finisher (and 1984 bronze medalist) Giovanni Evangelisti of Italy, sixth-place finisher László Szalma of Hungary, and ...
TOKYO — That was embarrassing. There's no other way to put it, no sugar-coating or sunny side. It was embarrassing. And it spoke volumes about the state of the U.S. men's sprinting.