This Will Never Happen Again || The Greatest Long Jump Competition of ALL TIME 

Lol

From almost 30 feet away😅

Le stephen Hawkins: I already said time travel is possible. He has the portal

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lmaoooo

Lewis was a superb athlete. Definitely the best there was but when you're on top, you're only setting the bar for everyone else to catch up to you. And Powell did. I was jut a kid and soccer was my favorite sport back then. How I wish I was old enough to recognize the magnitude of what was going on.

That series of jumps by Lewis is super human in length and amazing in consistency. Like the title of this video, we will never see a competition like this again.

You beat Bob Beamon's unbeatable record.....and finish second..... Wow.

Jon Cocks Most of us couldn't even jump 9 feet. They really are incredible athletes.

@@jeanp.5929 amen to that last part

@Samaghik Samurai Bro, she could be a lesbian.

I got a good laugh. Thanks!

@Samaghik Samurai so?

I was not aware black humans can be lesbian too!!!

@@ankursen8192 tf

That's how it's done.

@@Lost_n_Found_1 yeah, respect. Really deserved the W

Right! You could tell he giving it ALL.

HOMKY! WRONG! YOU'RE! SEEING! THINGS! SOID! YOU'RE! (HALLUCINAL)! THE! (GREATEST)! MIKE! POWELL! THE! (LONG)! JUMP! (G,O,A,T)! WAS! (CLEARLY)! LONG! (JUMPING)! TO! (CHAMPION)! THIS! LONG! (JUMP)! COMPETITON! SOID! THE! (GREATEST)! POWELL! (CHAMPIONED)!

HOMKY! THE! (GREAT)! MIKE! POWELL! HOMKY! (UNEXCELLED)!

Both sides of coin Lol

Drug testing is much more strict and much less corrupt since then.

@@rusty0303 is there proof that they had steroids of any type? Just wondering

@@Gillgruntpro Yes there is proof. First there was the doctor who said he knows positive tests of American athletes that were covered up, because he was the lab worker who got the results. Then in 2003, Lewis famously admitted to failing several tests and saying "who cares" because he was just "one of hundreds" of failed tests that were covered up. Basically admitting that for about a decade they were ALL doped up. Just search "Carl Lewis doping". Powell still denies it, but I ain't buying that he won despite being the ONLY guy that wasn't doping.

@@rusty0303 ok thanks for answering

Imagine how the guys in the 1968 Olympics felt....They were all jumping world class distances that were near the current world record, and Bob Beamon beat them ---- BY 2 FEET!!!!!

@@paysonfox88 I know, right?!

How

Right I can jump 5 something on a good day

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HOMKY! (LEGENDARY)! MIKE! POWELL!

SOID! THE! (AMAZING)! MIKE! POWELL!

Powell didn't run 100 200 and relay. I do think he was a 400 guy in college. Still Powell jumped 29 3 times. Lewis also. Lewis never jumped 29 toll that day. He did jump over 28 more than only 6 7 people ever have.

Indeed yes indeed

Shit, well if you put it like that..... Astonishing

And women

@@xanderwillingham7844 i didnt see any woman here can you give a time stamp

zlegendprow, they might not be on this video, but there’s female long jumpers elsewhere, and don’t say “GiVe Me An ExAmPLe”

@@xanderwillingham7844 yes there is, for that go to the female long jumper videos.and you dont have to be sarcastic, i thought i missed something

@CloggedArteries22 Well, the whole world watched, even those who don't really follow Track and Field regularly. We talked about it for months. Everyone was into Long Jump after it happened, and this was in South East Europe. I can only imagine how the kids and youth in general were inspired in the US. I remember and cherish World Cup finals in football (or soccer if you must), every single one i watched, but this 20 minutes or so were one ride to remember. For me who does not follow this sport particularly regularly, I can tell you it is one of the top 10 sporting events I have ever seen.

IM EARLY40s VHS DAYS

I do remember this as well, and then went to compete in Long Jump in HS. I was the farthest jumper in my school, but only got third place at the regional competition in 1996 was a 19 ft. 3 in. jump.

@@jasonrubik congratulations, that is a really good jump. It just goes to show you how good these guys are that they can jump 10 farther, unbelievable.

Me too. Lewis is the goat 👩‍🔬🙈🐐

HOMKY! THE! (AMAZING)! MIKE! POWELL!

SOID! WRONG! SOID! I! CAN! (INFORM)! YOU! THE! (GREAT)! MIKE! POWELL! ISN'T! IN! THE! SHADOW! OF! ANYBODY! SOID! IT'S! THIS! THE! LEGEND! IS! CARL! LEWIS! SOID! THE! (GREAT)! MIKE! POWELL! IS! THE! (G,O,A,T)! LONG! (JUMPER)!

Yeah

One of the greatest duels in the history of pharmacology!

@@theakh4238 Yep, given Lewis failed tests and subsequent admissions.

Track isn’t sport

THE WORLD WITNESSED THE HISTORY✨

Yepp.. afterwards Carl said it was a FLUKE

@@mdubbsta3740 He was just a horrid bitter man. I feel sorry for him.

@Jim Palmer That doesn't necessarily make Edwards better. They were both great in their own ways.

@Jim Palmer Neither did Mike Powell. Lewis I believe did.

@Jim Palmer That makes sense then!!

@Raymond O'Connor shameless u r ....green envy lol....

@Raymond O'Connor jealous

@Raymond O'Connor No u are jealous of their sucess cause u implicating that they re using steroids .

@Raymond O'Connor Yo u ignorant were telling both were using steroid . Now get the facts for the second dude or stop playing with my time

@Ayden Arora Get em ? Dude why u talking if u dont have something important to tell

HOMKY! THE! (GREAT)! MIKE! POWELL! HOMKY! (UNEQUALLED)!

Agree!

That's what so crazy. Lewis was having one of the most dominant runs of any athlete in history at the time. He was untouchable for 10 years. He was chasing an elusive world record that had stood for 30 years. He had one of the most dominant nights of his career, putting up 3 jumps above 8.8. At any other event, an 8.7 was good enough to take home the gold. Lewis finally put up an 8.91, surpassing the WR in the sport. Even if the wind speed meant it wouldn't be official, in 30 years, no one had ever jumped better than 8.9. Like you said, that night he put together the greatest series of jumps in history... And he still came in 2nd.

I can jump farther

HOMKY! THE! (GREAT)! MIKE! POWELL! IS! THE! (MAN)! TO! (CHAMPION)! THIS! LONG! (JUMP)! COMPETITION! HOMKY! POWELL! DID! HOMKY! (CHAMPION)!

SOID! (AIR)! POWELL!

It just shows that to beat Carl Lewis, you need to Beat the world record. That is all you need to know about the greatness of Carl Lewis. To have to actually beat a 23 year standing record that is thought unbeatable just to win against him ----- right after he just beat that unbeatable record by 1 cm.

...and that was the only time Powell beat King Carl!

@@roshanfernando9657 King Carl was doped up and still lost when it mattered

@@bifftannen66 Nope!

@@roshanfernando9657 Good point! Read up about your hero Lewis, he simply admitted himself. I don't blame him, it was a different time, everyone used so he was still one of the best. But he wasn't clean, and neither was anyone else at that time.

HOMKY! AN! (INCREDIBLE)! LEAP! HOMKY! (ACCOMPLISHED)! BY! THE! (GREAT)! MIKE! POWELL!

exactly. I'm glad someone pointed this out.

@@charlestonyank2067 any difference means a lot to the athletes. It's like saying 3mph tail wind is barely registered as being felt yet it's illegal for a world record. Even a cm is an advantage.

Very good point, athletisme is related to altitude but alot of people don't this fact

It actually puts Bob Beamon in a sightly advantageous position...... If you care too much about air density and change in gravity.

@@charlestonyank2067 small margins and all that...we will never know of course, but I suspect these two would have both cleared the elusive 9.00m mark had the event been at altitude. IMHO.

This had me laughing :'>> sorry HAHAHAHA

Relatable stuff

U high

@@jokers4827 yes I was is and will be, to answer your question, unless it was a statement.. either way

@@miyukiejoypanoncillo7078 lol

That's what I'm saying 🤦‍♂️

Ummm camera man video 😂😂😂

I jus watched it lmfao

i hate that you're right

Yup

I didnt even realise that what happened to me till u said it holy

A9

U call a toe half a foot?

@@jacobmedina9274 I think he thought that you can't step on the white line

Bro u can only criticize... Nothing more

@@jacobmedina9274 His feets are really very small. So a toe of that size measures about half of his foot.

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HOMKY! RIGHT! THIS! WAS! (CLEARLY)! ONE! OF! THE! MOST! (COMPELLING)! ATHLETIC! TRACK! &! FIELD! COMPETITIONS! OF! (ALL!TIME)! &! CERTAINLY! THE! MOST! (INCREDIBLE)! MOMENT! IN! LONG! (JUMP)! HISTORY! (ARCHAEOL)! HOMKY! (CHAMPIONED)! BY! THE! (G,O,A,T)! HOMKY! THE! (GREAT)! MIKE! POWELL!

Lol India aren't watch athletics games because you're not all athletes people all of Indian population that's a unmovable fact

Yep, Lewis was amazing

Being one of the fastest men in the world helps,i guess..

SOID! THE! (CHAMPION)! MIKE! POWELL!

Believe me Carl Lewis hated having people defeat him

Mike Powell never beat him again. Carl Lewis beat him for gold after this in the 1992 & 1996 Olympics

Yep there was so much plot armour

plot armor is just too powerful

plot armor is just too powerful

It doesnt matter how much you spend on armor or where you get it from If it isn’t plot armor, its still going to break

I don't think Lewis 'upset' the field there. He was the defending Olympic champ and it was only due to an injury before the US Olympic trials that prevented him from getting selected for the 100m in 1992. Stil though, he ran the greatest anchor leg ever and the US 4*100m relay team set a world record at the Barcelona Olympics of 1992.

He set a world record winning that 100m race in Tokyo

@@mongoslade277 yep

@Bad Monkey and one of the best steroid user...

@Anthony Ramsey Have a look at your comment and see if you can spot the inaccuracy in it's assessment. If I comment that Usain Bolt is the fastest man in history, does that by definition make it my opinion? No, it clearly doesn't! It is whether the comment is based on fact or conjecture that makes it opinion or otherwise.

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Literally sick of online homeworks... Can't even focus to do anything, even watching this video...

Christina Argentum Omg, sammme.

Preferably with the black ppl portrayed with realistic features..you know as opposed to the donut lips and creepy/dumb proclivities that feed into a negative stereotypes.

with black animator's just in case

Haha loved this thread ! Hope it will be a reality some day!

@@youngsirD and without the dark fingernails, what's up with that?

It looks like Mike Powell did it four times in this competition. So Carl Lewis 8, Mike Powell 4, and 4 other individuals once each, I assume.

SOID! THE! TOKYO! JAPAN! (WORLD)! CHAMPIONSHIPS! SOID! THE! (CHAMPION)! THE! (GREAT)! MIKE! POWELL!

​@@funshine817Powell's next best jump in this series was 8.54

and the heaviest person record

Hahaha hi kimmy

Eating them?

Your brother used to til you snuffed him

@@ljcomments886 Kim's dad was North korea's best track and field athlete in his late 60's.

You got a forever agreement from me. Was a sprinter myself in high school then and lived Carl Lewis.

Almost!!

Unmatched!

@@paulgerardhosty9909 Not almost, by far and away! Powell had around 10 of the top 100 longest jumps in history, Lewis had nearly 30....case closed if you're being realistic! Even Larry Myricks had as many jumps whilst Pedrosa had many more than Powell. Look at Bob Beamon, one jump in the top 100....Powell was a great jumper, but he hit a purple patch that night and struck lucky, Lewis was a way more talented and consistent jumper.

@@truthsayerq7264 yeah, but the whole point is to jump the furthest, so whoever did that is #1.

@@thefracturedbutwhole5475 The question was around who the better long jumper was, and in terms of consistency that is clearly Lewis. Powell has jumped 8.70 or beyond on only two occasions, an 8.70 and and 8.95. Lewis has gone beyond this distance 8 times, starting at 8.70 with various jumps through the .70s and .80s....all the way up to 8.87. The distance between Powell's best and second best jump is 25cm, in other words he got the timing right on one jump, in the 2 years following this jump he struggled to clear 8.60. In addition to this he did all his 8.60 plus jumps in a two year period, Lewis did his consistently over a 10-12 year period, continually hitting jumps in the high 8.70s and one in the high 8.80s. Bottom line, Powell got lucky in much the same way Bob Beamon did, he jumped out of his skin on one occasion. Powell may hold the world record but in no way does that make him the better jumper. Have a look at the difference in their international medal haul, it tells a story. Lewis is beyond question the number one jumper in history in terms of consistency and talent.

Measuring wind is not expensive?

@@bizambo100 i didnt mean it like build a closed stadium but just use an already existing one that is closed i mean those were World Record games

@@zamasuawaken1908 I agree that the events should be in climate controlled venues. We know a lot more now than we did when they created the Olympics, lol.

@@zamasuawaken1908 or have jumps in some kind of enclosure. If such light wind makes a measurable difference

I believe you

How old are you?

@@charlesthorndike2702 22 🥺

@@MrZoora23 Oh, I meant to ask OP. I should have been more clear. I'm 25, but I kinda wish I could've been 10 years older, so I could've seen this incredible competition as a kid.

@@charlesthorndike2702 Not the OP, but I also remember watching this back then. I'm 42, btw.

statisticalyl powell jumped the furthest.

@@fier5080 Plus, Bob Beamon's jump is still an Olympic record from 1968.

​@@56postofficeWow! That's amazing perspective!!!!!

It's like almost 30 ft. That's crazy

I could only jump 1.80m

I jumped about 6 with a hurt leg

Lachlan Cameron I’m telling the truth bro I can jump far

i couldn't even jump near 1.5 meters ;-;

I was able to jump that far cuz I was light now I do boxing and need weight on my side so I added a few and now I cant jump that far anymore

"Losing". You are welcome

He didn't loose the event.