Lewis once won four gold medals in the Olympic Games. Do you know the story about Lewis?

Lewis was born into a sports family. Both parents are track and field coaches. Her mother Evelyn was a hurdler and long jumper when she was young. She was selected for the American team and participated in the Pan American Games. Father Bill was also a sprinter and rugby player when he was young. His two brothers are also athletes. My brother Mackey is good at sprinting and long jump, and my second brother Cliff is a sprinter and later became a professional athlete of the "Cosmos" team.

When I was young, Lewis and his sister often held their own sports meeting in the backyard. They used a pile of sand bought by their father to build the yard into a bunker to take part in the long jump, but their sister always won. My father began to wonder why Lewis didn't grow up and whether he was the only one in the family who didn't have sports cells. However, Lewis was not discouraged. He went to school to practice long jump almost every day, and sometimes limped home, but after a sleep, he appeared in the track and field the next day. He must fight for breath and become a veritable member of the sports family like his brother. After several years of training, Lewis really became an athlete.

Because his parents put most of their energy into track and field, the topics discussed in his family are often inseparable from track and field. Lewis has known many outstanding figures in the track and field history since he was a child, and jesse owens is an admirer of this family. When Lewis/Kloc-0 was 0/0 years old, Owens came to Bill's training ground. He encouraged Lewis to practice track and field well and become an excellent athlete in the future. Finally, Owens took a photo with Bill and his son. That photo became a permanent memory of Lewis. 1973, 12-year-old Lewis defeated a group of opponents much taller than him in the Franklin track and field competition in Philadelphia and won the long jump championship in the track and field age group. After entering high school, his long jump performance has broken the school's highest record.

Lewis's enterprising spirit in track and field is inseparable from his parents' words and deeds. He said: "My father told me before his death that only the result of the contest counts. Large-scale sports games are the Olympic Games and world championships. " He loves and respects his parents very much, because it was his parents who led him to the track and field star road. Before every competition, he always said, "I want to get a gold medal for my father." Old Lewis died of cancer before the Seoul Olympics. Before his death, Lewis handed over the gold medal of 100 meter won in the Los Angeles Olympic Games to his father. Later, he said, "That was my first Olympic gold medal, with my father's painstaking efforts and expectations. The whole family was surprised at that time. I didn't expect that I would take it as a farewell memorial to my father and let him sleep with him. That's my heart. "