I recently WROTE A COMPLAINT that the lj was a dead event- D, PHILLIPS - THANK YOU - how about a 29 footer bro?
I recently WROTE A COMPLAINT that the lj was a dead event- D, PHILLIPS - THANK YOU - how about a 29 footer bro?
I MIGHT -ADD- PHILLIPS jump was voted as PRE meets best performance- so it was noted by the Oregon press- [ not sure who did the voting]
yes, they moved the center of gravity some inches forward in 1986 because it was dangerous for spectators, anyway after zelezny throw (323.09 feet) they were talking about changing it again, but nobody came near since then (aki parvianen 305.41 feet second best) so they finally left it as it is now.
narf wrote:
I also noticed that he was wearing Starter brand gear, I've only seen that brand at Wal-Mart, he must be between contracts, or just not getting the love from Nike currently.
Yeah he talks about not having a sponsor in this post-race interview:
http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=videos&pg=2&event_id=120&video_id=13505&folder_id=1064&offset=15#videoi like to know....is there ANY video out there showing dwight's 8.74 jump? cant imagine in this day and age in america that we might have missed a monster jump because no one had a camera trained on the long jump pit!!!!
his 8.60 in the driving rain in helsinki was pretty impressive as well. He is going to have a career year in terms of performance. Already ran 10.06 and jumped 8.74. between bayer, saladino and a rejuvenated phillips we could have a nice summer of jumping.
Another big Saladino foul from last year:
here is a vid of the jump, the angle is a bit shitty but still....
http://vod.cctv.com/html/media/sportsscene/2009/06/sportsscene_300_20090608_5.shtml
No, that was thrown in like 1966... so it was the old javelin.
The new design only came out in 1986, add 11% to the new moarks to compare them with the old one's or deduct 10% from the old ones to compare to the new ones....
Holy crap can I take that back... zelezny threw in that 1996... misread. so kudos to that guy!
but the rest of the statement still stands...
I know Usain Bolt has talked about doing the long jump (and 400) in 2010, and possibly in 2012. Carl Lewis thinks bolt could go 9m. I think he should try the long jump, I mean he more than has enough speed and strength, plus he's got height.
Here are a few articles about it (from legit sources):
http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/trackandfield/news/story?id=4425845
What do you all think?