Carl Lewis ranked number one, while Lewis slipped to number three, having lost more races than he won. He even seemed vulnerable in the long jump, an event he did not lose in 1986, or the year before, though he competed sparingly. Lewis ended up ranked second behind Soviet Robert Emmiyan, who had the longest legal jump of the year at . At the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome, Lewis skipped the 200 m to focus on his strongest event, the long jump, and made sure to take all his attempts. This was not to answer critics from the 1984
Carl Lewis don't get it." In 1999, Lewis was voted "Sportsman of the Century" by the International Olympic Committee, elected "World Athlete of the Century" by the International Association of Athletics Federations and named "Olympian of the Century" by "Sports Illustrated". In 2000 his alma mater University of Houston named the Carl Lewis International Complex after him. In 2010, Lewis was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. In 2016, Lewis was inducted into the Texas Track and Field Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Lewis has appeared in numerous films and television productions. Among them, he played himself in cameos in