Lewis Black
Superstar
Jackie Joyner-Kersey was exceptional in the heptathlon, but she was never a megastar bigger than the sport. The heptatlon is still the heptathlon, even if you're very good. So she maximized her talent as long as she could to keep food on the table.
Michael Johnson flopped in the '92 Olympics, so he stayed hungry for '96. After killing it in '96 in 200m and 400m ... He won gold in the 400m only at the 2000 Olympics, but was running slower times..
Carl Lewis won gold in 100m in 1984. He DID NOT become bigger than the sport. Coke rescinded a previous endorsement offer and he got dropped by Nike after the Olympcs. Plus if you were alive back then you'd know people generally didn't give a fukk about track at the time ...So Lewis stayed hungry with something to prove. He won in '88 by default, and that was his last sprinting gold. (Interesting tho how suspect it is to me that he finally set a world record in '91 at age 30... this after having been a teammate of Flo-Jo.)
Do you have other tries at previous Usain Bolts or Micheal Phelps repeating?
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