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Usain Bolt said he had “no respect” for Carl Lewis, the man whose Olympic feats he eclipsed with victory in the 200m, saying the American’s recent comments on doping were attention-seeking. Bolt targeted the former Olympic 100m and 200m champion after becoming the first man to retain the double sprint titles with another scintillating performance in the 200m final. The Jamaican was referring to recent comments from Lewis, who he said had appeared to question the validity of his achievements. “I want to say that I have no respect for Carl Lewis. It is looking for attention, for an athlete...

Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis plans to "run all the way to Trenton," he said Monday as he jumped into a new career as a Democratic candidate for New Jersey Senate. At a well-attended news conference, Lewis said he decided to run because his charity work, which includes coaching the Willingboro High School track team, wasn't enough to solve the complex problems of the state. "You get to the point where you feel like you've kind of reached an end of what you can do," he said outside the historic courthouse in Mount Holly. Lewis, who won 10 Olympic medals...

I just wnat everyone to realize that the Olympic Fail the Obamas just got served with, is representative of several, real problems facing us because these two are in the White House. First, the rest of the world is laughing at America because of these two. They just bitch-slapped Obama down. We came in LAST. After the US President spends a couple (short) days there pitching for it. In reality while the IOC is a corrupt organization, they truly were afraid for having it in Chicago because they know corruption when they see it, and nothing was going to get...

Olympic gold hero accuses Bush America's biggest Olympic hero yesterday accused George Bush of exploiting the Athens Games for his own political advantage in the run-up to the presidential election. Carl Lewis, who won nine Olympic gold medals in athletics in a record-breaking career, condemned Bush for using the presence of Iraqi and Afghan teams in Athens in a television advertisement to boost his chances of re-election. Criticising Bush for linking his foreign policy with the two countries being allowed to compete here, Lewis said: 'I felt that was disingenuous. It is funny that we boycotted the 1980 Games [in...

America's biggest Olympic hero yesterday accused George Bush of exploiting the Athens Games for his own political advantage in the run-up to the presidential election. Carl Lewis, who won nine Olympic gold medals in athletics in a record-breaking career, condemned Bush for using the presence of Iraqi and Afghan teams in Athens in a television advertisement to boost his chances of re-election.

<p>The U.S. Olympic Committee and American sport federations for more than a decade allowed athletes who failed drug tests in qualifying events to compete in the Olympic Games and other world-class competitions.</p> <p>The Orange County Register reviewed more than 10,000 pages of confidential documents from 1988 to 2000 that show for the first time how the U.S. Olympic movement failed to deal with its own doping issues and kept test results a secret while accusing other countries of failing to control drug use in athletics.</p>