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Question of
Who flopped at the Mexico 1968 Olympics, but still took gold?
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Vladimir Yashchenko
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Dwight Stones
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Dick Fosbury
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Footage exists of Canada’s Debbie Brill high-jumping, proving that she was the first to employ the ‘Fosbury Flop’. What is her invention sometimes called?
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Brill’s Bend
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Brill’s Bounce
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Brilliant Brill
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Cuban Javier Sotomayor broke the high-jumping World Record in 1993, a feat yet not surpassed thirty years later. What did his leap measure?
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2.42m
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2.44m
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2.45
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Question of
What is the nationality of Yulimar Rojas the Women’s 2020 Olympic Triple Jump champion?
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Colombian
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Portuguese
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Venezuelan
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Question of
Men’s triple jump featured in the very first Olympics of 1896. When was the women’s equivalent introduced?
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1928
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1972
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1996
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Question of
Who is the only Briton, male or female, to have won an Olympic triple-jump gold medal?
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Ashia Hansen
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Jonathan Edwards
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Phillips Idowu
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Question of
Which of these long jumping legends never held the World Record?
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Carl Lewis
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Bob Beeman
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Mike Powell
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Question of
Which of these long jumping legends has never won an Olympic Gold at the event?
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Carl Lewis
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Bob Beeman
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Mike Powell
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Question of
Mike Powell set a World record of 8:95 metre in 1991. How many more centimetres was it than Ellery Harding Clark’s (also USA) jump to claim the first Olympic long jump gold, almost a century earlier?
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160
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260
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360
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And how much further was Powell’s jump than the current women’s WR set by Galina Chistyakova (USSR) in 1988?
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143cm
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193cm
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243cm
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