A family into heavy metal
5:20 PM, July 5, 2008
EUGENE, Ore. -- You could say that when Michael Carter retired as a track athlete, he took his ball and went home.
Where his daughter picked it up.
The ball in question is a shotput.
Carter used it to win an Olympic silver medal in 1984.
Michelle heaved it a personal-best and U.S. season-leading mark of 61 feet 10 1/4 inches Saturday to win the Olympic trials and make her first Olympic team.
"There are not too many combos like this," Michelle, 22, said of herself and her dad.
Michael Carter has another distinction: the only person to win an Olympic medal and a Super Bowl ring in the same year, his first of nine seasons as a nose tackle (and three-time Pro Bowl player) for the San Francisco 49ers.
-- Philip Hersh
