He won the medal, the first in a field event for a Jamaican athlete, in anonymity because he was second to Carl Lewis. WHAT HE DOES NOW: Beckford left on Friday from Orlando to Athens, Greece, to ...

Carl Smotherman, 78, recalled his daughter’s life, the weekend of her death and the days that followed. ... She said Beckford made unsubstantiated allegations of child abuse against his late wife.