Three-time Olympic long jump champion Carl Lewis of Houston, Tex., holds up flowers Aug. 7, 1992 during medal ceremonies at the XXV Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Lewis beat out world record holder Mike Powell for the Olympic title. (AP Photo/Deither Endlicher)

Poland's Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz happily claims the victory of gold after clearing the best height and setting a new world record in the Olympic pole vault event on Wednesday, July 30, 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union. The new world record was 5.78 meters ( 18 feet 11 1/2 inches). (AP Photo)

A member of the Arab Commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village September 5, 1972 appears with a hood over his face on the balcony of the village building where the commandos held several members of the Israeli team hostage. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf)

PHOTO:EAST NEWS/AFP (FILE) US swimmer champion Mark Spitz in action during the Olympic 200m Butterfly event 28 August 1972 in Munich. Mark Spitz captured seven swimming gold medals (100m, 200m, 4x100m, 4x200m, 100m and 200m Butterfly and 4x100m medley) at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

American athlete Dick Fosbury, in this combo, shows the style he used to win the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Mexico City, Oct. 20, 1968. Fosbury set a new Olympic record using the style called the

** FILE ** Extending gloved hands skyward in racial protest, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on Oct. 16, 1968. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. Peter Norman, the Australian who stood alongside the U.S. athletes staging the civil rights protest from the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday October 3, 2006, of a heart attack. He was 64. (AP Photo/FILE)

The winners of the light heavyweight boxing division pose during medal ceremony at the Summer Olympic Games in Rome, Italy, Sept. 14, 1960. Gold medal winner is Cassius Clay, 18-year-old from Louisville, Ky.; silver medal winner is Z Pietrzykowski of Poland, right; and the bronze medal winners are Tony Madigan of Australia and Giulio Saraudi of Italy, far left. (AP Photo)

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP Ethiopian athlete Bikila Abebe runs barefoot for victory in the Rome 1960 Olympic Games marathon.

United States Olympic boxer Cassius Clay of Louisville, KY, right, is shown in action during the Olympic bout against Z. Pietrzykowski of Poland in Rome, Italy, September 5, 1960. Clay outpointed the Pole and won the gold medal in the light heavyweight class for the United States. (AP Photo)

Paavo Nurmi, the

** FILE ** Extending gloved hands skyward in racial protest, U.S. athletes Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos stare downward during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner after Smith received the gold and Carlos the bronze for the 200 meter run at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City on Oct. 16, 1968. Australian silver medalist Peter Norman is at left. Peter Norman, the Australian who stood alongside the U.S. athletes staging the civil rights protest from the medal podium at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday October 3, 2006, of a heart attack. He was 64. (AP Photo/FILE)