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ESPN tapes special featuring former Olympic champions

Photo: Jack Hubbard Group
Photo: Jack Hubbard Mohamed Ali

At right, former world heavyweight champion and Olympian Muhammad Ali talks Monday with ESPN host Jim Gray at the Avery Aquatic Center prior to the taping of a special Olympic program scheduled to be broadcast Aug. 11. Appearing on the program will be, above (from left), former world welterweight champion and Olympian Sugar Ray Leonard; Olympic gold-medal-winning gymnast Mary Lou Retton; Muhammad Ali; Jim Gray; Olympic gold medalist and track star Carl Lewis; and swimmer Michael Phelps, who qualified in a record-breaking six individual events for the 2004 Olympics.