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re: Hardest feat to acomplish in sports?
Posted on 4/5/18 at 12:45 pm to NOLALGD
Posted on 4/5/18 at 12:45 pm to NOLALGD
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This was and still is an amazing feat but even with PEDs I'm not certain we will ever see this happen.
We've had a century of data and only small increments were made before Beamon.
And then Beamon owned that record forever.
There is a limit to human physical ability...but I still believe it will happen...
People once thought no human could run a 4-minute mile.
In the 1940’s, the mile record was pushed to 4:01, where it stood for nine years, as runners struggled with the idea that, just maybe, the experts had it right. Perhaps the human body had reached its limit.
But the difference in the long jump and the mile...after Bannister broke the barrier - a lot of other runners did too - and right away.
When Beamon leaped into immortality in Mexico City - it took forever for someone to come close to him.
The long jump isn't some progression as quick as in running.
It would be an interesting topic to investigate why humans aren't evolving as fast in jumping as we seem to do in running.
Posted on 4/5/18 at 12:52 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Powell has owned the long jump record longer than Beamon held it. Beamon held it for 23 years, and Powell has held it for 27 and counting.
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