Contributor(s): Author: Brad Alan Lewis Brad Alan Lewis\' determination to win an Olympic medal had taken over his life by 1984.
Emotionally crushed after losing a guaranteed spot on the team by nine-tenths of a second in the single scull trials, Lewis went to the dreaded Olympic selection camp, where he hoped.
But Lewis had a problem.
Only 1984 remained.
He would be too old for the 1988 Games and his spot on the 1980 team had been lost to world politics.
Contributor(s): Author: Brad Alan Lewis Brad Alan Lewis\' determination to win an Olympic medal had taken over his life by 1984