Bob Beamon's World Record Long Jump - 1968 Olympics
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USA's Bob Beamon breaks the world record in the long jump by nearly two feet during the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games.
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Чудесное видио ... Апофеоз Молодости ...Фейерверк Безграничных Возможностей...Вспышка Нового Супер Качества....Изумлению и Восхищению нет предела..!!!!!
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I know it probably doesn't matter to those in the know. But the way he landed this and jumped out makes it more impressive to me then Powells. This just looked perfect.
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I hate how when an NFL player runs a 40y in 5 seconds, it gets millions of views, but there are many athletes who can embarrass him in a 40y, yet no one knows their name.
Same with how if a basketball player can get their head on the rim, everyone freaks out, yet most Olympic high jumpers can get their whole body over the rim.
Track and field (or athletics if you're from anywhere else in the world) is easily the most underrated sport, and it sucks how nobody cares or pays attention to it besides the Olympics or NCAA -
He didn't even land like they do today which I'm sure gets you a little further. He kinda looked like he was flying.
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Holy s**t.
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He did everything perfectly. No one even jumps this far now. Very rare to see a 28' jump.
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Every time time I watch this it inspires me to greater heights. Never give up , never surrender and always believe in yourself.
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I can remember this as a 9 year old watching on TV. The amount by which he eclipsed the old record blew me away!
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I read an article written by a physicist who examined the forces necessary to jump that far. He claimed that if Beamon had jumped any farther, the stresses on his legs would have broken them.
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The greatest single achievement by an athlete in the history of sport.
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One thing is for sure: no one is likely to ever break the long jump world record again by that percentage. It would take a jump of about 30 foot 9 inches. Crazy.
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everyone check and subscribe the long head jum
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Fun fact: the 1991 world record, that finally surpassed Beamon's 1968 record by 5 cm, is already older than Beamon's record.
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An amazing moment in sporting history. Maybe Bolt's world records in 100 and 200 metres come close. Just maybe.....
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he goes and goes and goes
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Bob had refused to jump at the NCAA track and field competition in Spring of 1967, held at Brigham Young University (BYU)--as the Mormon Church refused blacks into the church until 1978. Our family had moved from Ohio-Athens, Ohio (Ohio University) to Ogden Utah--culture shock!! My parents knew the Ohio track coach who went on to be the US coach at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City (This jump.) Since Beamon refused to go to the meet at BYU, UTEP kicked him off the team and he was privately coached by Ralph Boston.
BYU is one strange place. Mormons don’t drink anything with caffeine, no alcohol, and no smoking. They also considered all blacks as undeserving of membership into the Church--they had NO black guys in tier basketball or football teams. We would sneak down from the University of Utah just to see how quickly we could get kicked off campus! Usually after smoking weed--it WAS the late 1960s! we’d wear jeans (forbidden) and try to order Coca-Cola in the student union. we weren’t kicked off by security-oh NO the BYU students would confront us themselves--ask to see our ID and we would say “We forgot to carry them.” Wearing red University of Utah sweatshirts didn’t help. (BYU was blue and white)
Back to the 1967 NCAA year end Track meet. Our coach friend said that he was carrying a thermos of coffee onto the field and was stopped by a security guard. Coach laughed as he figured that the guard thought he was sneaking liquor in the thermos. The guard said “No coffee allowed!” Coach thought it was a joke and laughed. He got kicked out of the stadium until he could contact the guy in charge of the meet to get back in. None of the black players were allowed to stay in the dorms! We are talking MAJOR athletes: USC w/ OJ Simpson, John Carlos, Tommy Smith...the USC 4 x 100 yds relay team shattered the world record in that meet--all black sprinters.
If any of you have NOT been to such a huge track and field event it’s like a five ring circus. They have the javelin over here, there the high jump, long jump in another place, and there are always track events taking place ALL AT THE SAME TIME. But when the 4X100yd relay was beginning the 80,000 white people in the stands went quiet. Everyone stopped to watch. They were so fast that OJ who ran the anchor leg was crossing the finish line when the other teams were still passing the baton between the 3rd runner and the anchor!
But these black guys were treated horribly. BYU is in a small town-Provo surrounded by other small towns-Orem etc. Closest big city was Salt Lake City but that would have been a LONG DRIVE EACH day to the stadium. The coaches finally found some good people who allowed the athletes to stay at their homes. It was NUTS!
The next summer was the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. I remember watching John Carlos and Tommy Smith on the medal stand--sharing a pair of black gloves, they raised their fists in a show of black pride. People were horrified. But I got it..because I saw how they were treated at BYU and Provo, Utah!
When BYU’s football team was getting shellacked every year by teams with black players the President (Prophet) of the Church had a “revelation” that blacks should be allowed in The Church, BYU started winning football and basketball games again! -
Crazy jump. A jump that's only been eclipsed once, and threatened a few other times. Unlike other track and field events, the long jump is one in which the competitors are not getting better and better.
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So happy for him
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48 years old in the OLYMPICS WORLD.....
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It's a real testimonial to what the human spirit can do- There was something very different going on here.
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