24 years ago tonight the GOAT of Track and Field wins 4th consecutive Long Jump gold

Uhh no. Michael Johnson is nowhere near to the class of Lewis. Lewis was named Sportsman of the Century by the IOC in 99 and Athlete of the Century by the IAAF in 2000 which Johnson was done competing by then.

Come on man, you know Bolt is the best, dude could do 100, 200, 400 and if he did long jump, he'd probably dominate there too!

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I mean we saw what Lewis did, we can only speculate on what Bolt could possibly do.

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True, but it's not difficult to imagine he'd be elite there too.

Yes, I saw what both did and Bolt COMPLETELY shattered the 100 and 200 meter WR's and was pretty good at the 400 as well.

Bolt is the only sprinter to win Olympic 100 m and 200 m titles at three consecutive Olympics (2008, 2012 and 2016).

Carl Lewis is a legend, but my opinion is that Bolt surpassed him.

Bolt is the second most impressive athlete of the past 25 years after Tiger Woods IMO. Winning three consecutive gold medals at both the 100 and 200 is just unfathomable due to the competition. Think about it. There are a lot of countries where basketball or baseball or cricket isn't played. Even soccer has a lot of countries where it's not a popular participation sport. Every country has people who run whether it's for fun or need or competition and every country has people who dream about being the fastest man on earth. Plus it's a sport with no room for error. You get off to a bad start or you have a stumble and you're going to lose. It's just incredibly difficult to be dominant and sustain dominance as a sprinter and for Bolt to do it for a decade just defies belief. We'll never see a sprinter like him again.

I got to meet Carl Lewis and shake his hand when U of H was recruiting me. He was taller and more muscular than I expected. As for Carl vs. Bolt, of course Bolt is faster. But Carl was as dominant in his era as Bolt was plus Carl had long jump golds in 4 consecutive olympics and was undefeated in the LJ over a 10 year period.

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I still Love Jessie Owens going into fricking Munich and putting on a show for the “master race”

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Munich or '36 Olympics im Berlin?

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Carl had long jump golds in 4 consecutive olympics and was undefeated in the LJ over a 10 year period.

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He wanted Beamon's record SOOOO bad. I remember watching the 1991 Worlds live, it was in Tokyo so the feed was in the middle of the night. I was convinced he would break the record, the record did get broken but it was Powell that broke it and it still stands today. There is a young Cuban jumper that may break it in the next few years.