YEBies

View Original

Happy Birthday Carl Lewis...

Carl Lewis was born on this date in Birmingham, Alabama in 1961. He was raised in Willingboro, New Jersey where he would grow to become arguably the greatest track Olympian ever. Lewis won 10 Olympic medals including 9 golds, and 10 World Championships medals, of which 8 were golds, in a career that spanned from 1979 when he first achieved a world ranking to 1996 when he last won an Olympic title.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GE06jRCMc&hl=en&fs=1&]