He was also a track star at USC. He ran on a world record 4x110 yard relay team with Earl McCullouch and Lennox Miller. The difference between 440 yards and 400 meters is negligible. They were hand timed at 38.6 seconds.
I remember watching this "live on tele" in the UK and its hard to believe that it's 35 years ago ... Great running by the Americans, Calvin Smith ran a monster turn , Carl as usual was majestic on anchor .. Great days , great memories
Carl Lewis just has that freight train finish. The last 15 meters every race he looks bigger and faster, like a freight train on NOS. I watch Usain Bolt who is the best runner all time but he is just steady fast the whole 100 meters. Carl Lewis just has that unusual 15 meter finish specimen in him that nobody else in the world has.
I was there. Gives me the chills to watch it again. Went to several track and field and running events because I was a long distance runner in high school at the time, I was just 15 years old. I have nostalgia for this time because I went to high school with kids from every background, financial level, every color - every race - every religion - and we were all friends. Carl Lewis was an icon and you've got to remember this was back in the mid-80s. There didn't seem to be much strife between black and white people back then. Seems like we're going backwards....in large part due to the "news" media brainwashing people.
@@ash27slick74 considering we came second here that's pretty dope. But besides that Jamaica actually broke this world record several times before that 36.84
@@datname1939 Actually, that wasn't the record Jamaica broke though - The U.S. with Carl Lewis went on to lower several of their own world records from the 80s through the early 90s.
You can’t beat the BBC commentary though. I remember hearing “....and the big man has the baton....and history is being made....on he comes, Carl Lewis”
British track and field commentary is sooo much better. It builds the occasion really well. US commentary doesnt go right with whats happening on the track 🤣🤦♂️
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He actually did quite a bit of the "track athlete giving track commentary".....as we at ImaSportsphile webpage have lots of footage on OJ doing track commentary.
A big reason was that LA already had nearly all the infrastructure in place and ready to go. They didn't need all sorts of new stadiums and venues that would just rot away after the games like most Olympics.
OJ also did commentary for ABC during the 76 games in Montreal. Everyone thinks of him as just a football player, he also ran track at USC and was part of their 4X220 yard world record relay team.
Yep, and that is sad.....cuz the good ole USA has been very slow to accept the global metric system....so the great days of old boys in the flatlands of West Texas back in the 1950s and 60s when human flashes like Bobby Morrow and Dave Sime were burning the cinder tracks are already forgotten....and that is all the more reason the 1800 vintage videos already posted on our site are such treasures.
Calvin Smith had a point to prove on the 3rd leg after not making the final for the 100m. Grady and Brown's hand-off was bad and like OJ said that was a nearly full second lost.
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I noticed that too. I'm not sure what the rule is. Are you OK as long as you don't step over the line (which he didn't) or is merely touching the line (which I think he did) enough to get you disqualified? Carl didn't interfere with another runner, but I'm not sure whether that's relevant. Does it make a difference whether it's the inside or outside line? If you cross the outside line, as Carl almost did, you're actually putting yourself at a disadvantage because you're increasing the distance you have to cover.
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If they started on level terms on the last leg of a relay, it would be great to see. Lewis was generally a worse starter than Bolt so that takes away some of the advantage of Bolt.
@@connorduke4619 you do realize that bolts start qas by no means the best part of his race. Lewis isn't even close to bolt, volt can maintain top speed for much longer.
@@datname1939 Agree Bolt is not a brilliant starter but still better than Lewis who was notoriously slow out of the blocks. You could be right in saying that Bolt could maintain top speed for longer as Lewis tended to rely on a finishing burst to blitz everyone. Still we are probably talking the two greatest sprinters of all time.
Eventhough there were many countries boycotted the games in 1984 then again the events which Carl participated were events that the Communist countries like Soviet Union and East Germany could never challenge the Americans in this particular events 100m WR-Calvin Smith(9.93) 200m-WR-Pierto(19.72) the Italian was in the relay event. Relay and long jump were dominated by the Americans and Carl Lewis unbeatable in the long jump.Only Mike Powell in 1991. A jump of 8.95m(WR) Carl was second(8.86m) I rest my case The haters can go and fly kites. 1988 non of this events were won by the Communist countries.The relay in 1988 US were disqualified. Carl no worries your 4 gold medals, they should be no one giving excuses.I.was only 8 years in 1984. No one could challenge Carl in the final 50m becoz he's always slow from the starting block.
Did only the USA compete in this event? Or the entire 1984 Olympics? Judging by the commentary, I guess not! My American friends in Detroit had to tune into Canadian stations to hear any news about any other competing nation. Had the Eastern Bloc attended, it may have helped keep the ego in check somewhat...
"...a little problem with the handoff....."?? Juice, what race were you watching, anyway? The handoff were flawless. The last of the Americans flawless handoffs. They get worse in Games to come.
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@Broadsidejohn hand off 1 to # 2 runner. Was shaky! Also if you look closely Lewis actually stepped out of his lane twice. At least the baton wasn't dropped!
I'm so done with all the commentators loving the US, its like no matter how great you are, if you are not from the US, you will be sabotaged, just ask Ben Johnson.
Saw this 40 years ago!
40 years later... who is watching this in 2024???
I am. Today is Carl's 63rd birthday 🎂
The 80s was the best 10 years in every department
Calvin smith was doing justice to the turn
The best summer of all time... When I watch this now, I get the feeling I got watching it back then..
Calvin Smith ran a monster 3rd leg.
you know its the 80s when O.J Simpson is still just a wholesome American football hero and TV broadcaster
So what he killed two people. It's the American Way 🇺🇸
He was also a track star at USC. He ran on a world record 4x110 yard relay team with Earl McCullouch and Lennox Miller. The difference between 440 yards and 400 meters is negligible. They were hand timed at 38.6 seconds.
What an era!
I remember watching this "live on tele" in the UK and its hard to believe that it's 35 years ago ... Great running by the Americans, Calvin Smith ran a monster turn , Carl as usual was majestic on anchor .. Great days , great memories
Somehow it was Calvin Smith, who impressed me the most.
Calvin Smith, the all time best curverunner !
You are definitely right!
Someone that knows what he's talking about.
Very true
Yohan Blake too
Man, I loved the 80's.
Carl Lewis was a once in a generation athlete. Greatness!!!
@nubiamancy you juice up and see if you come close.
I still liked Calvin Smith's leg got his metal my man cut that bend so well
Calvin was the stuff I loved watching him run in relays
You know this is an 80s event when you see Carl Lewis and his flat top look.
Carl Lewis just has that freight train finish. The last 15 meters every race he looks bigger and faster, like a freight train on NOS. I watch Usain Bolt who is the best runner all time but he is just steady fast the whole 100 meters.
Carl Lewis just has that unusual 15 meter finish specimen in him that nobody else in the world has.
I believe he has the highest top speed..
Yeah, he was known to just kill it over the last 60 meters.. When that stride fell into place, it was over..
Got damn Calvin Smith ate the fuck out!!! Straight Burners!!! 🔥
This race was special because 2 Jamaican high schoolers were on the Jamaican team
I was there. Gives me the chills to watch it again. Went to several track and field and running events because I was a long distance runner in high school at the time, I was just 15 years old. I have nostalgia for this time because I went to high school with kids from every background, financial level, every color - every race - every religion - and we were all friends. Carl Lewis was an icon and you've got to remember this was back in the mid-80s. There didn't seem to be much strife between black and white people back then. Seems like we're going backwards....in large part due to the "news" media brainwashing people.
O.J. called it! The man can do no wrong. - 1984.
Didn't realize that Lewis came EXTREMELY close to stepping out of bounds on the exchange.
Was thinking the same...But if you look super closely, I think the edge of his shoes did touch the outside edge of the while paint..
28 years later Jamaica 🇯🇲 runs 36.84
We don’t care
Like you said, 28 years later.....
@@ash27slick74 considering we came second here that's pretty dope. But besides that Jamaica actually broke this world record several times before that 36.84
@@datname1939 Actually, that wasn't the record Jamaica broke though - The U.S. with Carl Lewis went on to lower several of their own world records from the 80s through the early 90s.
@@jayceak7 thanks for the correction... it's probably going to be awhile before the current record gets lowered on repeat... if ever...
Carl Lewis was the speed and the elegance at the same time to the top level
You can’t beat the BBC commentary though. I remember hearing “....and the big man has the baton....and history is being made....on he comes, Carl Lewis”
I agree :BBC commentators👌
British track and field commentary is sooo much better. It builds the occasion really well. US commentary doesnt go right with whats happening on the track 🤣🤦♂️
These guys were moving and it doesn't hurt to have Lewis as an anchor. What an athlete and person.
Got goosebumps just watching this. WOW!
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Ben Johnson's start was amazing.
Pero este Ben era tramposo, usaba sustancias prohibidas que le aumentaban la masa muscular y resistencia. Cuando lo pillaron perdió todo.
OJ knows all about slow motion races.
Carl Lewis is the most celebrated American track athlete.
Carl Lewis was a beautiful runner to watch
Look at the form of Lewis as soon as he gets the baton.
Ben Johnson the bronze medallist in 200m😂😂😂
it says 200 but it was the 100
Carl's phiysical structure is shape to run & spring like a cheeyah. Watch him walk with his upper body ahead of his rump.
Those shorts were very aerodynamic.
Yes saw
The final how he sped down the straight like a bullet train, I was 13 was like WOW!
Its some thing i watch this again even that music at the start pumping up what was to come
Can't look at this enough.... Go team USA!!!!
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OJ - track athlete giving track commentary.
He actually did quite a bit of the "track athlete giving track commentary".....as we at ImaSportsphile webpage have lots of footage on OJ doing track commentary.
OJ was a track athlete in his college years
It's a shame ABC no longer telecasts the Olympic Games. They were the best.
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Yep. Of course they would probably use all the Disney owned networks especially all the ESPN channels, ABC Family, Lifetime and A&E.
NBC coverage is so biased and one sided Shameful
I was there.. when they posted the split times for the usa it said carl had run the anchor leg in 8.43 secs... faster than bolt or anyone else ever.
bone daddy, the original Sportsphile was there also....and he has always said he saw the 100 split ever live....talking about Carl's leg
Carl's fastest leg ever was 8.96..🤦🏾♂️. Which was in '92
Almarco82 He ran an 8.86, IIRC, at the 1987 WC in Rome.
Usain bolt has the fastest 8.65
@@aaronkoeppe9057 no bob hayes do 8.4
the 1st and only NWR on the athletics track in LA 1984
Oj was fast dude
More money was made at this Olympiad than any other in history.
A big reason was that LA already had nearly all the infrastructure in place and ready to go. They didn't need all sorts of new stadiums and venues that would just rot away after the games like most Olympics.
@@generalzod7959 You mean the swimming pool at USC, the Coliseum and the Rose Bowl. Perhaps. But regardless, the fact remains.
Yes!!
Ron brown football player flying like that dude was it
Am I the only one who loves to watch Carl Lewis run? I don't know what it is about his running style that is so pleasing to watch.
You know all the countrys was fast to think of it
anyone else notice that one of the announcers is OJ simpson?
O J and Al Michaels were ABC's lead track and field commentators for the entire 1984 Olympics
OJ also did commentary for ABC during the 76 games in Montreal. Everyone thinks of him as just a football player, he also ran track at USC and was part of their 4X220 yard world record relay team.
Your comment is spot on as we at ImaSportsphile have that USC world record performance in our library....which confirms your comment
Thanks. Unfortunately, all records in races measured in yards, with the exception of the mile, are no longer officially recognized.
Yep, and that is sad.....cuz the good ole USA has been very slow to accept the global metric system....so the great days of old boys in the flatlands of West Texas back in the 1950s and 60s when human flashes like Bobby Morrow and Dave Sime were burning the cinder tracks are already forgotten....and that is all the more reason the 1800 vintage videos already posted on our site are such treasures.
They all were good
I knew Daley Thompson's best decathlon event was the 100 but I didn't know he ran in the relay. So who was the better athlete - Lewis or Thompson?
great commenting of a fab moment.
Calvin Smith had a point to prove on the 3rd leg after not making the final for the 100m. Grady and Brown's hand-off was bad and like OJ said that was a nearly full second lost.
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He didn't make the team for the 100 metres or 200 metres let alone the final.
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He was booking around that corner! This race and the Barcelona race are my favorite from
Carl Lewis!
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And then Jamaica pulled up in 2012 olympics and ran exactly 1 second faster than this wr
Gosh only 28 years later. 😂
Probably had much smoother exchanges. That cost the 1984 team some real time. Even the pass to Lewis wasn't really clean, but they got it done.
I was 21 on this now classic day 🌈
Those shorts 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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I wish I watched this team
Skinny Ben Johnson!
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Two of the runners played in the NFL
Wow I wasn’t born at this time
Me too born 2011 no worries bring back memories
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baton passes were superb congrats usa
Nowadays, team usa struggles completing the exchange. This has been a problem for a while.
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Ahhh I see Ron Brown on the deck !
Another US Gold - Free Krusty Burgers for everyone!
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Smokin!
Wow truly Amazing Carl Lewis is one of the best of all time……Great Job
Ron brown exploded when he got the baton!
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Notice how close Lewis comes to stepping outside of the lane as he receives the Baton from Calvin Smith.
I noticed that too. I'm not sure what the rule is. Are you OK as long as you don't step over the line (which he didn't) or is merely touching the line (which I think he did) enough to get you disqualified? Carl didn't interfere with another runner, but I'm not sure whether that's relevant. Does it make a difference whether it's the inside or outside line? If you cross the outside line, as Carl almost did, you're actually putting yourself at a disadvantage because you're increasing the distance you have to cover.
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Ron brown with his size was smoking as well as the rest of his team
I was 20 years old at the time
Everyone watched this live...
And nobody remembered the Jamaica got the silver! What a shame! The announcers believe in fair play, ignoring the other competitors.
How light they were on there feet
I'm not sure whether Usain Bolt would have been able to run down Carl Lewis that day, dude was really motoring!
Wouldn't have to, he'd be ahead of him woth his current teammates by a few meters.
If they started on level terms on the last leg of a relay, it would be great to see. Lewis was generally a worse starter than Bolt so that takes away some of the advantage of Bolt.
@@connorduke4619 you do realize that bolts start qas by no means the best part of his race. Lewis isn't even close to bolt, volt can maintain top speed for much longer.
@@datname1939 Agree Bolt is not a brilliant starter but still better than Lewis who was notoriously slow out of the blocks. You could be right in saying that Bolt could maintain top speed for longer as Lewis tended to rely on a finishing burst to blitz everyone. Still we are probably talking the two greatest sprinters of all time.
You gotta feel bad for O.J. nobody wanted him back in the booth after he was found not guilty
Oh wow, i was born on the 3rd of aug
Calvin Smith was the key.
OJ and Carl Lewis...lol...scoundrels
Lewis top speed here must be at least equal to Usain
Yes
Yes, Carl's weakness was getting out of the blocks. Once he started getting his momentum, he could really crank it!
No.
Damn, and Carl Lewis didn't hit 6th gear until 30 meters in.
You know it’s the 80s when team USA wins the 4x1 😂
1992 check it out
Eventhough there were many countries boycotted the games in 1984 then again the events which Carl participated were events that the Communist countries like Soviet Union and East Germany could never challenge the Americans in this particular events
100m WR-Calvin Smith(9.93)
200m-WR-Pierto(19.72) the Italian was in the relay event.
Relay and long jump were dominated by the Americans and
Carl Lewis unbeatable in the long jump.Only Mike Powell in 1991.
A jump of 8.95m(WR)
Carl was second(8.86m)
I rest my case
The haters can go and fly kites.
1988 non of this events were won by the Communist countries.The relay in 1988 US were disqualified.
Carl no worries your 4 gold medals, they should be no one giving excuses.I.was only 8 years in 1984.
No one could challenge Carl in the final 50m becoz he's always slow from the starting block.
Kodak film. Video tape. Short shorts. Pre-murderin' OJ. Pre-dopin' Ben Johnson.
Where Jamaica
Sterling Hinds Canada!! Go Huskies
That is a familiar voice, that announcer,
Lewis, Johnson and O.J. What a bunch of crumbs.
Did only the USA compete in this event? Or the entire 1984 Olympics? Judging by the commentary, I guess not! My American friends in Detroit had to tune into Canadian stations to hear any news about any other competing nation. Had the Eastern Bloc attended, it may have helped keep the ego in check somewhat...
"...a little problem with the handoff....."?? Juice, what race were you watching, anyway? The handoff were flawless. The last of the Americans flawless handoffs. They get worse in Games to come.
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@Broadsidejohn hand off 1 to # 2 runner. Was shaky! Also if you look closely Lewis actually stepped out of his lane twice. At least the baton wasn't dropped!
@@distanceman8147 Exactly the only smooth exchange was Brown to Smith, Lewis darn near went into another lane.
In slow motion doesn’t look like they are running that fast
In slow motion at 6:34 you can see that Lewis stepped over the lane marker - should have been disqualified...
I'm so done with all the commentators loving the US, its like no matter how great you are, if you are not from the US, you will be sabotaged, just ask Ben Johnson.
Hahahahahaha you so tired of great running by Americans? Oh well
This was the USA broadcast, what would you expect????
Sabotaged? How was Ben Johnson sabotaged??
OJ was in his hey-day back then...Look what he turned out..
who he was then....and who he is today on the day he was released from prison after 9 years of incarceration are like night and day
Plus there's a possible connection between his behaviour and all the head trauma he received during his football days.
The 80s and 90s. Wow. Extreme patriotism and American achievement. What happened?
These commenters are soo fucking one side
OJ??? lol