Special to USA TODAY Sports
Friends are amazed to see Edwin Moses still wearing the same stylish, custom suits he sported in the 1980s, when he was the top 400-meter hurdler in the world.
Moses, 66, has gained only four or five pounds since retiring from track and field in 1988. “I don’t need to have a new wardrobe,” he’ll tell his friends. “I’ve got nice clothes and I don’t want to have to retool.”
Then they invariably ask, “‘What do you do? You look like you could run.”
While Moses agrees he looks the part, he said he doesn’t have the oxygen or the muscle control to get back on the starting line.