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Wonderful story about Bob Beamon's immortal 29' long jump and the amatuer that took one of the most iconic olympic photos of all time
Posted by: hal
Date: October 16, 2015 05:52PM
[deadspin.com]

Great stuff... an amateur on vacation in Mexico snaps one of the greatest olympic photos of all time. Only a few stills of the record breaking jump were snapped because there was an important 400m race on the track at the time, but none that compared to THIS:

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Re: Wonderful story about Bob Beamon's immortal 29' long jump and the amatuer that took one of the most iconic olympic photos of all time
Posted by: Ken Sp.
Date: October 16, 2015 09:23PM
Thank you, that was a great read!
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Re: Wonderful story about Bob Beamon's immortal 29' long jump and the amatuer that took one of the most iconic olympic photos of all time
Posted by: $tevie
Date: October 17, 2015 12:18AM
Thank you!


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Re: Wonderful story about Bob Beamon's immortal 29' long jump and the amatuer that took one of the most iconic olympic photos of all time
Posted by: Rick-o
Date: October 17, 2015 09:31AM
That IS a cool pic! thumbs up


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Re: Wonderful story about Bob Beamon's immortal 29' long jump and the amatuer that took one of the most iconic olympic photos of all time
Posted by: GeneL
Date: October 17, 2015 03:38PM
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Ken Sp.
Thank you, that was a great read!

Yes, thanks!


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Re: Wonderful story about Bob Beamon's immortal 29' long jump and the amatuer that took one of the most iconic olympic photos of all time
Posted by: The UnDoug
Date: October 18, 2015 07:10PM
Agreed! Great story--one I did not know about (the jumper nor the photographer).

Here's a cool video of Mike Powell breaking Beamon's record:

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