Sotomayor went 8 feet. That's a great jump but no one has come close since.
I did read that he was on drugs late in his career.
Sotomayor went 8 feet. That's a great jump but no one has come close since.
I did read that he was on drugs late in his career.
Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:
Sotomayor went 8 feet. That's a great jump but no one has come close since.
I did read that he was on drugs late in his career.
Um, a couple of guys have been close as recently as a couple of years ago.
You don't think Barshim still has a shot at this?
Bring Back the 880 wrote:
Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:Sotomayor went 8 feet. That's a great jump but no one has come close since.
I did read that he was on drugs late in his career.
Um, a couple of guys have been close as recently as a couple of years ago.
You don't think Barshim still has a shot at this?
Major high jump competitions are still won at 7-7 and even 7-5!
We are not progressing in this event.
Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:
Bring Back the 880 wrote:Um, a couple of guys have been close as recently as a couple of years ago.
You don't think Barshim still has a shot at this?
Major high jump competitions are still won at 7-7 and even 7-5!
We are not progressing in this event.
Who cares we only want to BQ!
Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:
Sotomayor went 8 feet. That's a great jump but no one has come close since.
I did read that he was on drugs late in his career.
Limits on the required specialist drugs. And no new breakthroughs in PEDs for high jump
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Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:Sotomayor went 8 feet. That's a great jump but no one has come close since.
I did read that he was on drugs late in his career.
Limits on the required specialist drugs. And no new breakthroughs in PEDs for high jump
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Because it's really, really, really high.
Cocaine+steroids(?)+talent
That's a recipe that few have the ingredients for and even fewer have incentive to use properly.
That's clearly it. The path to success in a sport as technically involved as high jump is clearly paved with cocaine. I'm sure Javier was fairly dialed when he cleared that.
Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:
Sotomayor went 8 feet. That's a great jump but no one has come close since.
I did read that he was on drugs late in his career.
Because the Fosbury Flop is a flawed technique(also illegal, because the head leads the body over the bar).
The record has stayed where it is because the high jumping community abandoned the straddle technique which allows the jumper to see the bar throughout the entire jump, avoiding the blind touches of the bar by the heels, the bottom and the shoulders that destroy so many attempts in the flop.
The world record in 1978, a full ten years after Fosbury's Mexico City Olympics, was set at 7'8(he later cleared 7'8 1/2). It is so likely that a straddler would have gone significantly higher with modern surfaces and training methods over the last 40 years but the flop has been the fashion forever.
It is painful to watch kids trying to learn the blind flop at my daughters' middle school and high school practices and meets.
Don't be surprised if someone comes along to set the high jump world on fire with a 'new' technique called the straddle.
Didn't make clear that the record in 1978 was set by a straddler.
View some online videos of the technique and note the simplicity and control of the good jumpers, nothing done blindly; a miss is an honest miss.
The reason the Flop is used because it allows the center of mass to travel under the bar due to the shape of the body.
If you can move your entire body above your center of mass -->jumping higher.
Watching old videos from 70s and 80s shows immediately why progress has stopped in so many events. Today people wear way too big shorts.
African tribesmen used to routinely clear well over 8 feet but they would launch off a lump of a termite mound. They would certainly not flop since the landing pit was solid Earth.
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The NBA Commish has it right, NBA money is the # 1 reason. I'd go so far as to say there will NEVER (i.e. for the next hundred years plus) be another American man that even gets within 2 inches of that record.
A couple of years ago five or six guys jumped 2.40 or higher. Barshim did 2.43. That's a lot of guys going higher than 7-10
Mike Rossi jumped 8'3"but he missed two timing mats.
Bring Back the 880 wrote:
Doubtful Pre Doubtful wrote:Sotomayor went 8 feet. That's a great jump but no one has come close since.
I did read that he was on drugs late in his career.
Um, a couple of guys have been close as recently as a couple of years ago.
You don't think Barshim still has a shot at this?
Barshim?? Drouin is much more consistent.
Where is Bondarenko? He may have easily had that 2.43, 2.44, or 2.45 jump but he never attempted those. He only went for 2.46 and 2.47 after reaching 2.40 or 2.42. I remember watching the slo mo reply of his WR attempt in NY and was extremely close!