News about Carl Lewis

A disappointing day for USA Track & Field at the Paris Olympics only got worse as legendary sprinter Carl Lewis took aim at coaches after another disaster in the 4X100 relay. Racing without Noah Lyles , who is battling COVID-19 , Team USA was disqualified for an illegal pass when Christian Coleman crashed into teammate Kenny Bednarek during the first handoff of Friday's final. Canada would go on to win gold in 37.50 seconds. The United States men have not medaled in the 4X100 relay at the Olympics since a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Games. The Americans last won gold in 2000 in Sydney , when they were anchored by Maurice Greene. 'It is time to blow up the system,' Lewis, a two-time gold medalist in the 4X100, wrote on X. 'This continues to be completely unacceptable. It is clear that EVERYONE at @usatf is more concerned with relationships than winning. No athlete should step on the track and run another relay until this program is changed from top to bottom.' The criticism was not a surprise.

American sprinter Kenny Bednarek won his 200-meter semifinal heat in 20 seconds, which was the second-best time among all qualifiers. Yet when lanes were assigned, the 25-year-old was given No. 4 - something he perceived to be a disadvantage. 'Never seen favoritism like this on a global scale,' he wrote on X.

When Italian swimmer ­Thomas Ceccon accidentally flashed his abs during the medal ceremony for the 100m freestyle relay in Paris the other day, he almost broke the internet. Along with French swimming ­sensation Leon Marchand - proud winner of four individual golds at his home Games - Ceccon is topping many red-blooded women's wish-lists as the Olympics spotlight focuses on the competitors' ­physical attributes as well as their sporting prowess. A slew of media outlets has been compiling lists of the ­'hottest hunks' at the games, while social media is awash with discussion of the greatest ­masculine heartthrobs.

A five-star Paris restaurant has hit back at Serena Williams after she claimed she and her daughter were refused entry despite being completely empty. The 23-time Grand Slam winner took to X to publicly complain about the treatment she received at The Peninsula Hotel on Monday after being 'denied access to rooftop to eat'. After posting a snap of the luxury establishment alongside her gripe, the restaurant clapped back just two hours later on X in response to the complaint. 'Dear Mrs. Williams, Please accept our deepest apologies for the disappointment you encountered tonight,' the Peninsula team wrote. 'Unfortunately, our rooftop bar was indeed fully booked and the only unoccupied tables you saw belonged to our gourmet restaurant, L'Oiseau Blanc, which was fully reserved.

DAVID COVERDALE AT THE STADE DE FRANCE: Noah Lyles is working with Netflix producers on the storylines for the second series of Sprint. Saturday, though, brought a plot twist in Paris - the world champion was beaten by a student from Sheffield. Yes, it was only the first round of the 100 metres and Lyles still made it safely through to tonight's semi-finals. Yet losing to Louie Hinchliffe was not what the American showman would have scripted for his first scene at the Stade de France. For Hinchliffe, though, this was Hollywood stuff. The former Yorkshire junior golfer was ranked a lowly 11th in Britain a year ago with a personal best of only 10.17sec. But his results have transformed since moving to the University of Houston last August to be coached by nine-time Olympic champion Carl Lewis.

Serena Williams looked worse for wear as she rode down the River Seine on a high-speed boat as a torch bearer for the Paris games. She was joined by Rafael Nadal, nine-time Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis, and former Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci as they made their way through driving rain and choppy waters. The boat was part of a four-hour ceremony centred around the French capital's river and it was going so fast that Nadal fretted that the flame might go out. Williams seemed to have been enjoying the ride as she waved to fans, but she suddenly gasped and needed to quickly grab onto Comancei to keep steady.

America is still reeling from country singer Ingrid Andress' mangling of the The Star Spangled Banner on Monday night. The four-time Grammy nominee, 32, was selected to perform the nation anthem during the Home Run Derby at Arlington's Globe Life Field in Texas - but the star's rendition has already been dubbed 'the worst' of all time. Despite the All-Star crowd politely offering Andress a round of applause, the singer's sharp, crackly voice earned a number of intermittent boos from the crowd as it echoed the stadium, as well as drawing a barrage of criticism from viewers at home. Described as the 'worst ever' rendition, fans took to X to share their surprise, with one writing, 'The #Allstar national anthem was brutally, painfully, embarrassingly bad,' while another said, 'Possibly the worst national anthem I've ever heard.' Several critics were reminded of other nightmarish anthem performances, such as Roseanne Barr 's, Carl Lewis' and Fergie's. But Andress' butchered performance of the national anthem is not the first one in America - or even around the world, as we take a look at ten other terrible renditions of what should be a country's proudest moment.

DAVID COVERDALE AT THE MANCHESTER REGIONAL ARENA: Two years ago at this Manchester meeting, the little-known student sprinter did not even get out of his 100m heat, while last year he did not compete here at all. However, Hinchliffe's career has transformed since he moved to the University of Houston to be coached by nine-time Olympic gold medallist Lewis last August. The 21-year-old showed he is a star in his own right as he became the British champion for the first time.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: Carl Lewis was on holiday in Bali last summer when he received an unexpected message on WhatsApp. The sender was a British student and the text said: 'Can you fix me?' 'I had never heard of him,' admits Lewis about the athlete who contacted him out of the blue hoping for a transfer to the University of Houston, where he is head coach. 'But I looked him up and then talked to him on the phone. 'My conversation with him was, "I can fix you if you are willing to work and I think you can make your Olympic team". I told him that in the first call. There was no guarantee, but I thought that he would have a shot.'

The 21-year-old's personal best time in the NCAA Championships final was the fastest by a British man this year and the ninth quickest in the world. Hinchliffe will now be one of the favourites to seal a spot at the Paris Olympics when the British trials take place in Manchester at the end of the month. 'I've got to forget about this now and focus on the job at hand because the main job is the Olympics,' said the University of Houston student. 'I need to shift my focus to the Olympic trials.'

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Forty years after he announced himself as the fastest man on the planet, Carl Lewis still shows no signs of slowing down. 'Every year I do something I never thought I would, something crazy,' says the nine-time Olympic champion. 'I tried to bench press 300lbs (136kg) when I turned 60. I sky dived at 61. I'm 62 and I want to do a split. At 63, I am going to scuba dive 63ft.' Lewis has already got a goal in mind for when he is 67 - lighting the Olympic flame at Los Angeles 2028. 'I don't want to say too much because then they probably won't do it,' he says. 'But it would just be amazing for me to do that.'

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Carl Lewis, one of the finest Olympians of all time, was one of the most influential Olympians of all time. In sprinting and long jump, he earned nine Olympic and eight World Championship gold medals. In 1990, he went vegan. He has claimed that his plant-based diet has resurgent him as an athlete. In the long jump and the 4x 100m relay, as a vegan, he captured two golds at the 1992 Barcelona games as a champion, as well as the long jump gold at Atlanta in 1996, aged 35. Alex Morgan, a U.S. women's football striker and model who won Olympic gold with the US team at London 2012, went vegan in 2017. She was also a champion of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019.

DAVID COVERDALE: Carl Lewis, a long jumper, has sluggishly criticized World Athletics for their controversial proposal to replace the take-off board with a take-off zone. The sport's governing body, as detailed by Mail Sport on Monday, is considering a reform to the ancient discipline in the hopes of lowering the number of no-jumps.

ED CHAMBERLIN: The frenzy comes after the freeze. A breathless day of racing at Cheltenham will be from last Saturday's all-weather diet to today's jumping feast. Forget the Festival; this is four days of brilliance condensed into four mesmerizing hours. Sit tight. In ten years, Cheltenham has produced 28 Festival winners, so keep an eye on it. In the opener, we could see the Triumph Hurdle champion, where Burdett Road and Sir Gino - first and second in the antepost betting - go head-to-head. For years, we've been bemoaned our good Flat horses being sold overseas, but owner Tim Gredley is defying the trend and taking a closer look at a select group of top-class players from the region. Burdett Road won at Royal Ascot last June, but he has been gazelle-like over hurdles.

ROBERT DINEEN: Hogshead, a civil rights lawyer and the chief executive of Champion Women, which promotes female athletes' rights, has often clashed with the IOC and has been compelled to question why the IOC has rejected Davies and other women's requests to rewrite databases that distinguish drugged East Germans as medal winners. To correct the oversight surrounding athletes of Davies's generation, one may not only deter sponsors by pointing to a stain in the Olympics' history, but Hogshead maintains that it would cost money that officials would not want to invest.

Antonia Hoyle, 44, (pictured), a UK-based writer, moved out of her parents' house 25 years ago. She kept her bedroom exactly how it was when she was a teenager in 1997. She describes her room as an oasis of calm, a sea of nostalgia, a swathe of abandoned adolescent fashion, and a source of contention with her parents

A stunning NYC townhouse located on the Upper East Side of the Upper East Side, which was once the scene of a spectacular murder-suicide, is up for auction at $29.5 million. It was originally intended for renowned novelist Paul Ford (inset) who was killed in the library by his brother in 1902 due to a money dispute. Ford was born with a spinal abnormality that left him with a hunchback and dwarfism. Despite his physical limitations, he continued to be a best-selling novelist before being shot in cold blood by his wayward brother, who had been disinherited from the family fortune for wanting to pursue a career in sports. Esther Kerrigan, a socialite who augmented the home with a priceless art priceless art collection that contained paintings and drawings by John Singer Sargent, Gainsborough, and Daumier, was taken over. In 1987, the staircase alone was worth $400,000 (roughly $1 million in today's money).