Former Olympian recovery leads back to Iowa State
Not sure if Danny Harris is a believer, but hearing stories of people who've fallen through the cracks and then get their lives back together...is always amazing.
From -- Kurt Streeter
LA Times Sports Blog
Some good news about 1984 Olympic silver medalist Danny Harris, one of Southern California’s all-time track talents, a man who for years struggled with drug addiction that nearly killed him.
Harris, raised near Riverside, was the focus of one of my July columns. He had been a supreme track talent. Aside from the 1984 medal, there was his stunning defeat of Edwin Moses in 1987 -- which snapped Moses’ 122-race winning streak in the 400-meter hurdles -- and a trio of national collegiate track titles at Iowa State.
But Harris had also been banished from track and field competition in the mid-1990s because of his cocaine habit, sparking a long slide that eventually landed him in downtown L.A.’s skid row, where he lived for months in 2007 at the Midnight Mission recovery shelter.
Read the full article here.
From -- Kurt Streeter
LA Times Sports Blog
Some good news about 1984 Olympic silver medalist Danny Harris, one of Southern California’s all-time track talents, a man who for years struggled with drug addiction that nearly killed him.
Harris, raised near Riverside, was the focus of one of my July columns. He had been a supreme track talent. Aside from the 1984 medal, there was his stunning defeat of Edwin Moses in 1987 -- which snapped Moses’ 122-race winning streak in the 400-meter hurdles -- and a trio of national collegiate track titles at Iowa State.
But Harris had also been banished from track and field competition in the mid-1990s because of his cocaine habit, sparking a long slide that eventually landed him in downtown L.A.’s skid row, where he lived for months in 2007 at the Midnight Mission recovery shelter.
Read the full article here.
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