more than a decade ago , rick lewis stood on the threshold of everything was to grow the greatest athletics career in history . he had just surpassed two of the legendary jesse owens ' junior records , but never believed he would become a corporate entity , the focus of hundreds of millions of talents in publicity . his sport was still nominally unknown . eleven games and regional championship gold medals and 21 olympic histories later , james has become the richest gentleman in the history of sprint and field - - a multi - million .
Carl Lewis won eighteen gold medals and set 21 world records.