Dwight Edwin Stones (born December 6, 1953) is an American television commentator and a two-time Olympic bronze medalist and former three-time world record holder in the men's high jump.
Since then, he has been a color analyst for all three major networks in the United States and continues to cover track and field on television.
At the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Stones took the bronze medal at age eighteen, behind Jüri Tarmak and Stefan Junge.
[15] A few days later, he raised the world record to 2.32 m (7 ft 7+5⁄16 in) in dry conditions at Franklin Field in Philadelphia.
The debate became so inflamed that he decided on a new tee-shirt for the day of the final, the back of the shirt reading "I love French Canadians",[15] which officials asked him to take off.
The Americans in the audience responded to the treatment of Stones by booing Claude Ferragne, a French-Canadian jumper, during the event.
[citation needed] After missing the 1980 Olympics in Moscow due to the American-led boycott, Stones returned to the Games at age thirty in 1984 in Los Angeles, and finished fourth.