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Bob Beamon is on Newstalk now.

  • 26-08-2008 07:22PM
    #1
    thirtyfoot
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    He is being interviewed now at 8.25.


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  • #2
    liveforphotos
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    I missed it. What did he say? He has always been an iconic hero of mine.


  • #3
    Fast_Mover
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    For anyone not familiar with who is here. Clicky here.

    Any recordings of interview?!


  • #4
    thirtyfoot
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    Spoke about the day he set the record in Mexico. He was having trouble with his mark and kept breaking in warmups etc as he was running so bloody fast, he even said himself he was sprinting ridiculous speed on the runway. So the plan was to get a safe jump in first round and then go for it after that. He jumped and knew it was big but had no idea how big. It was announced in metres, 8.90, and he still didn't know it was a WR or very big as he only knew feet. Then his teammate explained he had jumped 29 feet, nobody had ever jumped even 28 feet, and he realised the enormity of it. He said he had a wierd almost out of body experience where it wasn't him that was there (sound like a Michael Jordan experience).

    He spoke of how his record still stands as an Olympic Record but that the pinnacle for an athlete is not the records but the gold medals. Does lots of work with disadvantaged kids as he was from a similar background himself.

    http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_athletics/BEAMON_Bob_19681018_EL_R.jpg


  • #5
    shels4ever
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    Tingle wrote: »
    Spoke about the day he set the record in Mexico. He was having trouble with his mark and kept breaking in warmups etc as he was running so bloody fast, he even said himself he was sprinting ridiculous speed on the runway. So the plan was to get a safe jump in first round and then go for it after that. He jumped and knew it was big but had no idea how big. It was announced in metres, 8.90, and he still didn't know it was a WR or very big as he only knew feet. Then his teammate explained he had jumped 29 feet, nobody had ever jumped even 28 feet, and he realised the enormity of it. He said he had a wierd almost out of body experience where it wasn't him that was there (sound like a Michael Jordan experience).

    He spoke of how his record still stands as an Olympic Record but that the pinnacle for an athlete is not the records but the gold medals. Does lots of work with disadvantaged kids as he was from a similar background himself.

    http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_athletics/BEAMON_Bob_19681018_EL_R.jpg


    One thing i've always loved about this jump is the height that he gest from it, He seems to have such power and elevation must have been a factor in the distance?


  • #6
    liveforphotos
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    Tingle wrote: »
    Spoke about the day he set the record in Mexico. He was having trouble with his mark and kept breaking in warmups etc as he was running so bloody fast, he even said himself he was sprinting ridiculous speed on the runway. So the plan was to get a safe jump in first round and then go for it after that. He jumped and knew it was big but had no idea how big. It was announced in metres, 8.90, and he still didn't know it was a WR or very big as he only knew feet. Then his teammate explained he had jumped 29 feet, nobody had ever jumped even 28 feet, and he realised the enormity of it. He said he had a wierd almost out of body experience where it wasn't him that was there (sound like a Michael Jordan experience).

    He spoke of how his record still stands as an Olympic Record but that the pinnacle for an athlete is not the records but the gold medals. Does lots of work with disadvantaged kids as he was from a similar background himself.

    http://www.sporting-heroes.net/files_athletics/BEAMON_Bob_19681018_EL_R.jpg

    Thanks Tingle. I would LOVE to have heard that interview. as a former long jumper myself, I always thought that performance was absoloutely amazing. Lynn Davies, the 1964 Olympic champion, who was also competing, wrote that he just felt like taking off his shoes and going back to the dressing room after Beamon made that jump. The competition was over in the first round.


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