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  1. Still standing. And the distance sacrificed at the board would have given him a legal 18.43 which he was denied earlier in the year by a slight following wind. A great comment I read about this jump some years ago was along these lines: "Bearing in mind that he renounced his Christianity in the couple of years before this, it is somewhat ironic that whenever I see this jump I say to myself – Jesus Christ!!!", If the person who wrote that is reading this now – thank you!! I have quoted it in my local pub too when discussing athletics!

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