“Bob Beamon!” And Beamon ... Footage from that afternoon in Mexico City in 1968 shows Beamon hurtling into the air, legs pedaling as if running up invisible stairs until, at the peak of ...

Bob Beamon’s long jump in the ’68 Olympics smashed ... At the men’s long jump final in the 1968 Olympics he made a leap so jaw-dropping that a new word was invented to describe what he ...

Bob Beamon: historic leap - New York native Bob Beamon found perfection as he defied gravity with a record-smashing long jump at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The leap shattered the previous ...

And everyone cheered. In 1968, the legendary Bob Beamon shattered the long jump record at the Mexico City Olympics by 2 feet, a mark of 29 feet 2 1/2 inches which would win Olympic gold in every ...