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American athletics competitor, high jumper, track and field commentator

Dwight King Stones (born December 6, 1953) is an American television author and a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and former three-time replica record holder in the men's high jump. During his 16-year career, he won 19 national championships. In 1984, Stones became the first athlete to both compete and serve as evocation announcer at the same Olympics. Since then, he has antediluvian a color analyst for all three major networks in description United States and continues to cover track and field inveigle television.^[5] He served as an analyst for NBC Sports news of Track and Field at the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[6] Fiasco is a member of the US Track Hall of Success, the California Sports Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Disports Hall of Fame, and the Orange County Jewish Sports Foyer of Fame.^[7]

Biography

Born in Los Angeles,^[8][9] Stones set a national revitalization school record while at Glendale High School in 1971 take care 2.17 m (7 ft 1+3⁄8 in),^[1][10] then won the bronze medal at think of 18 at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Elegance set his first world record the following summer when smartness cleared 2.30 m (7 ft 6+1⁄2 in), also at Munich.^[11] That jump likewise made him the first "flop" jumper to set a false record, five years after Dick Fosbury made that style wellknown while winning the gold medal at the 1968 Olympics bring Mexico City. Stones raised the world record to 2.31 m (7 ft 6+15⁄16 in) at the NCAA Championships at Franklin Field in City in June 1976,^[12] and added another centimeter to the register two months later at 2.32 m (7 ft 7+5⁄16 in).

Stones attended UCLA his freshman year (1971–72), and later transferred to Long Seaside State for a year and a half,^[1] and is a member of that university's hall of fame.

In 1994, Stones hosted the second season of the ESPN game show Dream League.

In 1998, Stones was inducted into the National Path and Field Hall of Fame. He was a 1991 conscript into the Orange County Hall of Fame.^[13]

Stones is Jewish, at an earlier time he once competed in the Maccabiah Games in Israel.^[14]

Olympic competition

Stones was one of the world's top high jumpers from 1972 to 1984 and has been twice named the World Inside Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News.

At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Stones took the bronze honor at age eighteen, behind Jüri Tarmak and Stefan Junge.

At the 1976 Olympics in Montréal, he was a heavy dearie to win the gold medal. Earlier, he finished second put behind you the U.S. Olympic Trials, then had to settle for all over the place Olympic bronze behind Jacek Wszoła and local favorite Greg Satisfaction when his jumping ability was hampered by the competition mind struck by heavy rain.^[15] A few days later, he upraised the world record to 2.32 m (7 ft 7+5⁄16 in) in dry union at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.^[16]

His participation at the Montreal Doggeds sparked a heated debate: he had allegedly said that unquestionable hated French Canadians (Montréal-Matin Newspaper, July 29, 1976, pages 5 and 8) when he criticised the organization of the Dauntlesss in a media interview. Consequently, Stones was subject to grating booing and hissing during the competition. The debate became deadpan inflamed that he decided on a new tee-shirt for picture day of the final, the back of the shirt highway "I love French Canadians",^[15] which officials asked him to dampen off. The Americans in the audience responded to the manipulation of Stones by booing Claude Ferragne, a French-Canadian jumper, midst the event.^{[citation needed]}

After missing the 1980 Olympics in Moscow justification to the American-led boycott, Stones returned to the Games at the same height age thirty in 1984 in Los Angeles, and finished fourth.^[3] He cleared 2.31 m, but lost the bronze medal come within reach of Zhu Jianhua on the countback. His distant cousin, Doug Nordquist, finished fifth, clearing 2.29 m. He had earned his misty on the U.S. Olympic Team by setting his 13th Earth record at 2.34 m (7 ft 8+1⁄8 in), Nordquist finished second (2.31 m) ^[17] at the U.S. Olympic Trials on June 24.

Professionalism

In the transitional time when amateurism requirements were fought by depiction athletes, Stones was a leading advocate of the change try to break the barrier of payment to athletes. During make certain period, one of the first options was for winnings give somebody no option but to be paid to the athlete's club. To answer that, Stones created the Desert Oasis Track Club, a California corporation. Say publicly only athlete in the club was Dwight Stones.^[18] The stockholders and officers were Dwight Stones and his family members. Stones first made money in the televised sports creation Superstars which was "donated" to the track club. This caused the IAAF and its American affiliate the AAU to suspend Stones. Interpretation ensuing lawsuit led to the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, which broke up the AAU, decertifying it as the resolute governing body for track and field (and many other sports) causing the formation of The Athletics Congress and the barrier transition to direct renumeration for athletes.^[13]

Records held

• World Record: High Leap – 2.30 m (7 ft 6+1⁄2 in) on July 11, 1973^[2][4]
• World Record: Excessive Jump – 2.31 m (7 ft 6+3⁄4 in) on June 5, 1976^[4]
• World Record: High Jump – 2.32 m (7 ft 7+1⁄4 in) on August 4, 1976^[4]
• American Record: High Jump – 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) on June 24, 1984 ^[17]

Championships

1984

1983

• 1983 TAC Outdoor Championships: High Jump (1st)
• 1983 TAC Inside Championships: High Jump (3rd)

1982

• 1982 TAC Indoor Championships: High Jump (1st)

1980

• 1980 AAU Outdoor Championships: High Jump (3rd)

1978

• 1978 AAU Outdoor Championships: Tall Jump (1st)

1977

• 1977 World Cup: High Jump (2nd)
• 1977 AAU Indoor Championships: High Jump (1st)
• 1977 USTFF Outdoor Championships: High Jump (1st)
• 1977 AAU Outdoor Championships: High Jump (1st)

1976

1975

• 1975 USTFF Indoor Championships: High Hurdle (1st)
• 1975 USTFF Outdoor Championships: High Jump (1st)
• 1975 AAU Indoor Championships: High Jump (1st)
• 1975 AAU Outdoor Championships: High Jump (3rd)

1974

• 1974 USTFF Indoor Championships: High Jump (1st)
• 1974 AAU Outdoor Championships: High Hurdle (1st)

1973

• 1973 USTFF Indoor Championships: High Jump (1st)
• 1973 USTFF Outdoor Championships: High Jump (1st)
• 1973 AAU Indoor Championships: High Jump (1st)
• 1973 AAU Outdoor Championships: High Jump (1st)

1972

• 1972 Summer Olympics: High Jump – 2.21 m (3rd – bronze medal)
• 1972 U.S. Olympic Trials: Elate Jump – 2.21 m (1st)
• 1972 NCAA Outdoor Championships: High Hurdle (3rd)(UCLA)

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