If anyone was capable of breaking Bob Beamon’s extraordinary long jump record of 29 feet, 2 ½ inches, it was American Carl Lewis. Lewis won every long jump event he entered from 1981-1991, but he ...

Forty-five years ago today, at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Bob Beamon, a lanky twenty-two year old from South Jamaica, Queens, won the gold medal in the long jump with a belief-defying jump ...

The key to learning something new is total commitment. You’ve got to shut out the part of your brain that finds excuses. It’s like when I was getting ready to take my long jump in the 1968 Olympics in ...

It's not just how fast, it's also how high and how far. If jumping events are at all beneath the sprints in stature, it isn't by much. Long jump record-holders Bob Beamon (OR) and Mike Powell (WR) are ...