Carl Lewis Will Enter U.S. Track Championships

Six-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis, who boycotted the U.S. track championships last year, will compete in this year’s event, a spokesman for the sprinter said today.

Joe Douglas, business manager for Lewis, told Reuters in a telephone interview that the athlete and his teammates at the Santa Monica Track Club would all take part in next week’s championships despite past differences with The Athletics Congress, which governs the sport in the United States.

Lewis had said he had missed too much training while working on his biography this winter to be ready for the TAC national championships that begin Tuesday at Norwalk, Calif. However, Douglas said a decision was reached late Thursday night for Lewis to run in the 100 meters, in which he is the world record holder.