NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – World Athletics introduced on Friday that American monitor and discipline icon Carl Lewis will probably be an envoy for the World Relays Bahamas 2024.
The 62-year-old will now be trackside as the game’s present stars look to safe Olympic locations on Could 4 and 5 within the Bahamian capital of Nassau.
Lewis, a nine-time Olympic, and eight-time world gold medallist, has claimed 5 international 4 x 100 meters titles throughout his illustrious profession. He stated the World Relays guarantees to ship loads of pleasure.
“The joys of relay competitors is like nothing else, and I’m trying ahead to watching the world’s greatest of their bid to qualify for the Olympic Video games in Paris,” he stated on the World Athletics web site.
“I used to be in The Bahamas for the 2017 version of the World Relays, and it’s nice to be going again, this time as a World Athletics ambassador for the occasion the place I intention to advertise the competitors and showcase the game.”
World Athletics chief government officer Jon Ridgeon stated he was honored that Lewis agreed to the position and hoped his presence conjures up the current crop of athletes on the meet.
“Carl is among the best relay runners of all time, and it’s sensible to have him on board with World Athletics,” Ridgeon stated.
“He has impressed so many within the No. 1 Olympic sport, and his presence on the World Relays is vastly vital as athletes look to emulate him as they race for locations in Paris later this 12 months.”
With lower than 50 days to go till the relay competition, a number of of the world’s prime sprinters from greater than 50 international locations are getting ready for the two-day Olympic qualifying meet – together with Bahamian stars Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Steven Gardiner.
Groups will race within the girls’s and males’s 4 x 100 and the ladies’s, males’s, and combined 4 x 400.
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