I am working on the website for Monday and saw that that Sebastian Bayer jumped 28'6.75" today (8.71 meters) to win European gold. His jump is the 2nd longest indoors in history.
I found video of the jump and it's pretty unreal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJzYQ_4HFg
What is more unreal is that his pb has improved by my calculation by 22+ inches this year alone. The guy didn't even make the German Olympic team.
Very impressive.
Undoubtedly in the year 2009, I'm sure people will start the drug accusations, but to me, it's the perfect uplifting story of one not limiting themself.
I loved his quote, "Right now I cannot tell you how I managed to jump that far”