News about Carl Lewis

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).