Carl Lewis 84r Us Olimpics Trials 100m.

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Los Angeles - June 16-24
The Olympic venue, not much changed since 1932, acted as the trials location and rehearsal for the Olympics, which took place in the
stadium 6 weeks later. The weather was excellent, despite smog fears, with only occasional swirling winds marring sprints and jumps.
100 Meters - June 17, 19.10 Hr (-2.2w)
1. Carl Lewis (SMTC) 10.06
2. Sam Graddy (adi) 10.21
3. Ron Brown (Unat) 10.23
4. Calvin Smith (Bud) 10.29
5. Kirk Baptiste (SMTC) 10.30
6. Emmit King (N Bal) 10.41
7. Harvey Glance (Aub TC) 10.42
8. Mel Lattany (Bud) 10.43
Semi-finals - first 4 qualify, June 17, 16.35 Hr
1/ 1. Brown 10.18, 2. Graddy 10.19, 3. Glance 10.22, 4. King 10.30, 5. James Sanford (Muz) 10.35, 6. Albert Robinson (Ind) 10.36,
7. Jere Wheeler (Fresno CC) 10.38, 8. Mark McNeil (SMTC) 10.53 (+1.5w)
2/ 1. Lewis 10.15, 2. Baptiste 10.28, 3. Smith 10.29, 4. Lattany 10.37, 5. Thomas Jefferson (Kent) 10.45, 6. Ellison Stinson (Rice)
10.50, 7. Luis Morales (USC) 10.53. James Butler (Bud) - Dnc (-2.1w)
Quarter-finals - first 4 qualify, June 16, 12.40 Hr
1/ 1. Graddy 10.34, 2. Lattany 10.40, 3. Sanford 10.46, 4. Jefferson 10.51, 5. Terry Scott (adi) 10.53, 6. George Nicholas (Ohio St)
10.61, 7. Marty Krulee (Bud) 10.63, 8. Steve Bridges (Bud) 10.73 (-0.2w)
2/ 1. Lewis 10.14, 2. Smith 10.20, 3. Stinson 10.27, 4. McNeil 10.32, 5. Steve Williams (Unat) 10.34, 6. Donald Bly (LWC) 10.46, 7.
Neal Jessie (Ga) 10.50, 8. Mike Morris (Syr) 11.12 (-0.5w)
3/ 1. Glance 10.11, 2. Robinson 10.24, 3. Wheeler 10.26, 4. Blalock 10.30, 5. Morales 10.30, 6. Rod Richardson (Con) 10.30, 7.
Greg Walker (SW La) 10.54, 8. Lester Washington (Unat) 10.57 (-0.5w)
4/ 1. Baptiste 10.23, 2. Brown 10.30, 3. Butler 10.44, 4. King 10.46, 5. Ken Robinson (Acc) 10.47, 6. Steve Riddick (PPC) 10.49, 7.
Bernie Jackson (SSTC) 10.51, 8. Lee Gordon (Cou) 10.55 (+0.4w)
Heats - first 6 plus 2 fastest losers qualify, June 16, 10.05 Hr
1/ 1. Baptiste 10.38, 2. Lattany 10.38, 3. Butler 10.43, 4. Scott 10.43, 5. Richardson 10.46, 6. K.Robinson 10.60, 7. Jeff Gold (PPC)
10.74. Darwin Cook (SSTC) Dnc (-0.1w)
2/ 1. Lewis 10.29w, 2. Blalock 10.29, 3. A.Robinson 10.34, 4. Jefferson 10.38, 5. Jackson 10.42, 6. Jessie 10.48, 7. Bly 10.52. Mike
Roberson (Nike) - Dnc (+2.5w)
3/ 1. Graddy 10.26, 2. Smith 10.41, 3. Morales 10.47, 4. McNeil 10.48, 5. Morris 10.54, 6. Riddick 10.60, 7. Mario Johnson (NW
La) 10.75. Walter Monroe (Unat) Dnc (+0.3w)
4/ 1. Brown 10.35, 2. Stinson 10.36, 3. Williams 10.51, 4. Wheeler 10.51, 5. Krulee 10.58, 6. Washington 10.63, 7. Nicholas 10.67, 8.
Sam Palmer (Ga) 10.89 (+0.6w)
5/ 1. Glance 10.32, 2. Sanford 10.37, 3. Gordon 10.47, 4. King 10.55, 5. Bridges 10.58, 6. Walker 10.59, 7. Dannie Carter (LWC)
10.68, 8. Mike Sanford (Muz) 10.76. Jeff Phillips (AW) - Dnc (+1.2w)
The finest ever US domestic field was assembled for the final after some big names had been eliminated along the way. Old-timers Steve
Riddick and Steve Williams were lost in the quarter-finals, while James Sanford placed 5th in his semi-final. Lewis, the world
champion, was a clear favorite, and after getting out even with Graddy and King, he began to turn on the power. He looked across at the
opposition from lane 1 at the 40m mark, the first of 4 such looks, and imperiously flowed away. Despite lifting his arms in celebration
10m from the line, and losing half a meter, he still had a winning margin of 0.15 - almost insulting to such a quality group of sprinters.
Behind him Sam Graddy won the battle for second from Ron Brown, with Calvin Smith getting the relay spot after coming from last
place at 40m. Lewis afterwards said "I'm happy..that I won. I trained for this meet, harder than anyone else". In a booklet later
produced by "Swiss Timing", the timing experts considered that Lewis's time would have been 9.84 in windless conditionion