Lister blames tale of the tape for missing triple-jump final.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | August 21, 2004| | Copyright

Byline: Mike DeArmond

ATHENS _ Melvin Lister took a short hop, skip and a jump to explain why he failed to qualify for Sunday's 2004 Olympics triple jump final.

To fellow U.S. competitor Walter Davis, Lister was simply making an excuse rather than properly putting the blame on himself.

But let's let Lister, a Leavenworth, Kan., athlete who made it to Athens by leaping 58-feet 4-inches on his final attempt at the U.S. Olympic Trials, tell his side of the story.

First the hop.

"They took my measuring tape," Lister said of Greek track and field officials. ...

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