It will be interesting to see how she fares in the triple jump.
A more thorough and in-depth story here:
http://www.athleticsinthenews.blogspot.com
I am almost in Klüft's backyard at times (my best friend's colleague lives next door to the Klüfts). I've attempted to give you the what, when and why behind everything here.
Cheers,
EPelle
Many thanks Eric - an excellent read.
i find it hard to believe she went 15m in practice in tj unless she overstepped by 1/2 a foot & had a following tsunami
she's been jumping rubbish lj this year, so no chance it couda happened recently & tj is something that takes years to acquire & i doubt she'd spent enough time at it when went 6.97lj a few years back to have done it
so when was this 15m ?
"Her scores began to demonstrate that even untimely, freak injuries may prevent her from ever reaching the pinnacle of her career as a new world record-holder"
even without "freak injury", not a snowball in hell's chance she was ever going to break jjk's wr
Kluft is a Swedish lunchbox EPelle you meatball
In September last year at the Finnkampen International
Carolina jumped a windy 14.17m and a legal 14.02m.
AJK wrote:
Many thanks Eric - an excellent read.
That was an excellent read?
What did I miss?
& how big was the tsunami ?
any horizontal jump at sea-level boils down to "basic jump" of :
~ actual jump / ( ( 1 + ( ( 0.01 * tsunami ) / 2.0 ) )^2 )
it says that reebok have nothing against her decision; quite the opposite. she'll be invited to more meets since the hep is contested only a few times a season.
Reebok's Lars Jorbrink, who's known her all her career and got her the contract, believes his bosses will extend her contract after it expires at the end of this year.
He said in 2004 there were other companies who offered her more money than Reebok but she stayed because of the close, comfortable relationship she's enjoyed with Reebok.