Carl Lewis Will Help Evaluate U.S. Track

Olympic legend Carl Lewis and fellow Olympic gold medal winner Benita Fitzgerald Mosley will participate in a high-performance audit designed to evaluate how USA Track and Field prepares its top athletes for elite international competitions, USATF Chief Executive Doug Logan announced Monday on his blog.

Lewis and Mosley will be joined by Hall of Fame coach Mel Rosen, physiologist Ralph Mann and U.S. Olympic Committee executives Doug Ingram, Steve Roush and Jay Warwick on the USA Track and Field High Performance Audit Panel. Logan said the independent panel would "examine our practices, methods and procedures for selection, coaching and preparing our national teams for international competition," and added that "nothing is beyond examination."

Logan, who decided to appoint the panel after a spotty performance by Team USA's top track and field athletes at the Summer Games in Beijing, said he would publish the report on the USATF Web site. To read Logan's entire blog entry, visit http://www.usatf.org/about/leadership/ShinSplintsBlog/.