I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.

Addition Rafer now acts as the athletic advisor to Dan Guerrero Director of Athletics at UCLA. Johnson read for and got the role but was forced to turn it down because the Amateur Athletic Union told him it would make him a professional and therefore ineligible for the Olympics. He was chosen to ignite the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Rafer Lewis Johnson (born August 18 1935) is an American former decathlete and film actor.