#OnThisDay 50 years ago, USA Track & Field Olympian Bob Beamon changed the long jump forever, shattering the previous 🌎 record by more than 21-inches. 8.90 meters ☑️ 29 feet, 2.5 inches ☑️ #Mexico1968. | Team USA

12 reactions | Flashback to 1968: Bob Beamon shattered the long jump world record with a leap of 29 feet, 2.25 inches, at the Mexico City Olympics, outdoing the previous mark by nearly two feet. His historic jump still stands as a benchmark. | News Central TV | Facebook

Il y a 5️⃣5️⃣ ans, Bob Beamon battait le record du monde de saut en longueur à Mexico 1968. Son saut de 8,90 mètres était hors du temps et reste le record olympique le plus ancien de tous les temps. ✨ | Olympics

107K views · 1.7K reactions | An Olympic record from Mexico 1968 that still hasn't been broken! 勞 The jump was so off the scale that they had to calculate it with measuring tape.  This is the story of Bob Beamon's legendary long jump, which took place 56 years ago today. World Athletics | Team USA | Olympics | Facebook

10K views · 541 reactions | Long Jump Olympic silver medallist, Wayne Pinnock, says he prayed for this moment and words can't describe his intense elation. Pinnock also added that he is happy that people can see what long jumpers in Jamaica have to offer. Pinnock produced a massive 8.36M jump in the final of the Long Jump event at the Olympic Games in Paris, France. : Gladstone Taylor #GLNRSports #ParisExpress #ParisOlympics | Jamaica Gleaner | Facebook

At the 1968 Mexico City Games, Madeline Manning Mims broke Olympic records as the American women’s 800 meter Olympic champion! A silver medalist in 1972, and on the Olympic team in 1976 and 1980, only the boycott of the Moscow games kept her from participating in her fourth Olympiad. This year Madeline Manning Mims, founder of the US Council for Sports Chaplaincy, returns to the games of the Thirty-First Olympiad—as a Team USA chaplain. In a "like mother, like daughter" scenario, she has helped