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- PEOPLE, Page 83Fall from Olympus
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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- "I've always had to divide my focus," says Barcelona-bound
- Olympic athlete Carl Lewis. "This will be the first time I won't
- have to." In truth, the American track star, now vying for the
- gold in the long jump, could have lived with a little divided
- focus. But at the U.S. Olympic trials in New Orleans, Lewis
- washed out of the 100- and 200-m races, part of an epidemic of
- defeat that afflicted some of America's most gifted athletes,
- including four world champions. Observes Lewis: "The most
- frustrating thing is that DAN O'BRIEN, who should be in
- Barcelona, is not going at all." Decathloner O'Brien lost a spot
- on the U.S. team following three flubbed voyages over the bar
- in the pole-vaulting event. The day's biggest loser: Reebok
- athletic shoes. Their $25 million "Dan and Dave" ad campaign was
- pegged to the progress of O'Brien and fellow decathlete Dave
- Johnson toward the Summer Games. The campaign will continue --
- but inevitably focusing more on "and Dave."
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