Carl Lewis Biography

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NAME: Frederick Carlton Lewis
OCCUPATION: Track and Field Athlete
BIRTH DATE: July 01, 1961 (Age: 50)
PLACE OF BIRTH: Birmingham, Alabama
ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

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Track and field athlete Carl Lewis qualified for five Olympic Games and competed in four of them. He won numerous gold and silver medals.

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Track and field athlete Carl Lewis was born on July 1, 1961, in Birmingham, Alabama. He qualified for the Olympics in 1980, but did not participate because of the U.S. boycott of the Moscow Games. He did go on to compete in four Olympic Games -- 1984 in Los Angeles, 1988 in Seoul, 1992 in Barcelona and 1996 in Atlanta. He won numerous gold and silver medals before his retirement in 1997.

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