Runningart2004 wrote:
Triple jump has been around in some form since the ancient Olympic Games, it too is going nowhere.
Alan
The greeks never left any record of a triple jump, only of impossibly long jumps that starry-eyed european grecophiles decided must have meant three hops.
It could just as easily, and more reasonably, have been a sum total of three individual jumps. Not a bad idea for today's long jump and other field events, to reward consistency. Proctor jumped better than Bartoletta overall. Best-three-of-six scoring would be great for field events.
True once something is in the olympics it's hard to get rid of it, but the olympics itself is doomed. It's not taken seriously as a sporting event anymore, only as a political pageant. It will wither away in a few decades and track will wrest itself free and become an independent sport once again. Then it can evolve more sensible tests of human ability than the jump-jump-jump.