The Single Most DOMINANT Victory in TRACK & FIELD HISTORY || The Unbreakable Olympic Record 

Brings me back to highschool. Ran an 1600m indoor on a 12 lap/mile flat track. And lapped every single person in our small school “championship” Being a medium fish in a small pond is nice. Would recommend. P

I think someone missed the joke.

But he was “unfamiliar with the metric system”. Meters, centimeters, more or less the same right?

You meant to say point 71 meters.

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I totally agree. Besides the perfect take off and the insane height of his jump the landing is also truely special. His leg and hip angle is so perfect that his feet compress the sand in a way that enables him to stand up right away. I have always wondered if modern pits would even allow such a landing.

I wonder if he went to the side if he could have cleared 9 meters

Yeah I think he Bob could have cleared 9 if he had a bit more of a pike landing position. But don’t take this as a critique at all. I think that this might be b/c he only does a 1.5 hitchkick while most jumpers today do a 2.5 hitch. Bob has to hold his landing position a bit longer and that might be why you see a bit of knee bend right before landing. I’m really impressed with Beamon’s penultimate stride and then his last step how long it is as he lowers his center of gravity gathering for the take off.

@@guilhermediad1659 thats what trp said tho @Daziryx was joking

@@jarcthefryguy2355 yeah you're right

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@@carlinreeves8806 no.

It's 0.71 meters not 71

And it invented the term “Fosbury Flop”

Yeah I thought of that too. But he actually already made a video about Dick Fosbury and the day he dominated with his Fosbury’s Flop so that might perhaps be a reason to not talk if it again :) The Fosbury video is quite nice to watch btw

What? You're completely missing the point of the video.

Fosbury did Not break the World Record. He only broke the Olympic record in 1968.

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Should be mandatory to in school.

Bob is dead. Long live Bob!

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Don’t worry. It was that good.

The videos always are

Ski Creations that’s on a level like Jakob or rupp in highschool

@@iefybwkeyf.kbjfy.9870 at this age Jakob ran a 13:30 5k which is sick but his development could had been quicker than Axel's and that is what's interesting because Axel.can be a long way from hes best form

​@@iefybwkeyf.kbjfy.9870 Galen Rupp had a 5000m PR of 14:34 at age 16 in 2002 and Jakob Ingebritsen had a 5000m PR of 13:35 at age 16 in 2016 just for comparison.

We should be carefull with record made while being so young. J. Ingebritsen trains daily since he is 12 while many greats did start atheltics around 15-16. Obviously his room for progression is not the same. I do not know for this young Axel.

Racer TV what about Joel ibler Lillesø? He is same age as Axel and better. He ran sub 14 5k recently. They are both young competitors of middle distance. But Joel has proven in competition to be better.

Yup, four Olympic golds, third-best official jump ever, owns half the top 10 jumps, and I even think his gold-medal winning jump in 1992 could've broken the record but he was way behind the line.

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Lol, it’s never “by far” unless they actually hold the record 😂 . Would be like calling Allyson felix “by far the greatest female sprinter” For her medals despite no record breaking performances

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I am not sure of this, but given the 100m record from 1968, which wikipedia tells me is 9.95, then a 6.5% improvement could have been possible, just unlikely. In the same way it might be humanly impossible to do the same again with the current long jump world record. 8.95->9.53. Track and field is now so optimized that no such leap in results is realistic, and probably impossible. Having said that, yes it is therefore unfair to compare the old to the new, and I have no idea how we would try to balance that out. I do belive that mesuring dominance in precent is slightly inaccurate, but Bob had without a doubt the most dominant performance in all track and field.

Here is how you sort out greatest improvement as best as possible anyways. First determine the scientific limits of a particular event. Then determine what percentage of completion towards fulfilling that limit a win or record is. What this does then is not just judge an event based on it being a record but how far the record push the limits of human ability. The key factor then is the scientific limit determinations but there are some math geeks out there ready and willing to tackle that challenge.

just plot the wr list onto a log scale.

Even if you do it to the 1968 100m record, you get 9.30

Didn't do anyone else any good. He was the only one to beat the old record.

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He scratched 2 of his jumps in qualifying

Broad jump is jumping with two feet without running first. There is no way in hell you broad jumped 17 feet.

@@dandapper2397 Obviously I am talking about a aspect of running broad jump which was the topic of the video

@@xqt39a yeah my Dad said the same thing to me. He graduated in 59.

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That's due to his flawed method.

The problem with that argument is that the other jumpers in the same competition in the same environment did not even come close. Why didn’t they jump 29 feet or better?

The problem with that argument is that the other jumpers in the same competition in the same environment did not even come close. Why didn’t they jump 29 feet or better?

I think that that race was the best track race of all time, but in terms of the most drastic change from world record to world record it is not.

Nah it's not the most dominant win but it is the most exciting race in my opinion The slowest time was 1:43.78 which would've won the 800m in the Beijing '08 Olympics

The problem with that argument is that the other jumpers in the same competition in the same environment did not even come close. Why didn’t they jump 29 feet or better?

@mombojom3 as i understand it there was a storm in the air and it began raining heavily not long afterwards. The conditions were on the edge of legal for Beamons record jump and were not so favourable for the others. There is a research paper that indicates the conditions assisted Beamon by approximately 31cm. All that said Beamon was obviously the clear best in the competition and blew the field away regardless. It's evident that his jump was still near on flawless and incredible by any measure. That said if we're to consider this to be the best individual moment in athletics we need to consider it in as critical a way as we can.

True, but all jumpers had the same conditions and no one else came close to Beamon. He destroyed everyone's hope or Gold on the 1st jump because they couldn't conceive o jumping that far. That's what made it so incredible in the 1st place!

The problem with that argument is that the other jumpers in the same competition in the same environment did not even come close. Why didn’t they jump 29 feet or better?

@@mombojom3 But did they not jump better than usual? Pretty sure they did, they just couldn't match Beamon. Lots of sprinting records were broken. See 1968 200 meter.

I agree. Beamon broke the previous world record by 55 centimeters. So the previous record was 8.35 meters or 27 ft 4 & 3/4 inches. Beamon jumped 8.90 meters or 29 feet 2 & 1/2 inches. So he completely skipped over 28 feet.