MILWAUKEE — Carl Lewis is one of track and field's greatest performers. Andrea first met the 9-time gold medalist two years ago when they co-hosted a fundraising event for the YWCA Southeast Wisconsin, directed by their good friend and Milwaukee native Frank Gatson, Jr. TMJ4's Andrea Williams had the chance to have a one-on-one with a 9-time Olympic gold medalist to discuss his historic career.
You can read a transcript of their interview below: You can also watch it in the video player below: Carl Lewis, how are you? "I'm great. It's actually I'm in Paris. The weather's beautiful and the competition was incredible.
So, I'm excited about how things are going. Opening ceremony, you are sitting right next to Serena Williams. There was Rafael, the Spanish tennis player and the Romanian gymnast, Nadia, all of you in the boat together with the torch.
..in the pouring rain; floating along the Seine River what was that moment like for you? It was incredible because we were not told.
They said we want you to do something with the ceremony. Go into a room, and Serena was like, what are you doing here? And I'm like, what are you doing here? So it..
.we were all surprised and then they said, we'd like to take the torch from here up to the torch side and it was such an honor, I mean for me, being 40 years from Los Angeles, the Olympic games, and to be able to be a part of the torch ceremony in the Olympic games was absolutely incredible and I know it was cold, and it was rainy. But you k.