British Athletics, 25 years ago, speaks of its Olympic gold on the field and field, and why the world record of the 1995 world tests.
There are sports attractions as nice Jonathan Edwards are triple jump. He was in Heyd. He was a Atletician epiz. To watch the joy, his lies hid huge forces and technical shiny, and he looked greatly from one stage to another, unlike the accident, the explosion, most of his rivals.
He was often compared to the stone in the water, and such a fortune led to the fact that the current world record was won by Olympic gold in Sydney. His record feature celebrated his 30th birthday at the beginning of this summer, while his Olympic victory took place 25 years ago, a silver anniversary of gold attacks.
When it came to Sydney, it was successful for the fourth time. Edwards finished the run of Seoul and Barcelona in 1988, while he struggled with the pressure of being in the world’s No. 1 in 1996 and had silver to Kenny Harrison of the United States.
In some ways, Edwards was appropriate, after all, after a long trip, he eventually reached the top of the Olympic Chair. When it came to Athletics, in general, he was eventually a slow cultivator.
He was born in 1966 in London, he grew up in the north Davon as a son of deputy and showed small signs of becoming a sports athletes. The Western country traditionally does not produce a lot of events in the world-class field, partly related to the lack of facilities and Edwards School, although it is very better, it was only better and much better.
“I went to a very good school of Northern Davon, called West Buckland,” he said, “I was the first trimester.”
He adds.
Edwards won the crown of the elders with the support of the wind with 15.01 m, although he remembers.
Edwards went to Durham University to read physics. “I jumped 16:35 m 1987, I went to the world’s student games where I finished the ninth.
He started training Carl Johnson, and later Peter Stanley and Norman Anderson, and when he left the university, he decided to take a diving and took him seriously to athletics. “I had to be mad,” he said.
Although he missed the 1988 Olympic trials because of his religious beliefs, he was the fact that the competition was polluted on Sunday, he was elected for Seoul Games and completed only 23.88 m.
“Recently, I spent some time with Colin Jackson,” he said. “We have done several things about Puma on the 30th anniversary of my world, and, of course, Colin was breaking the world’s junior records and trading with the Jranded Redigon, so it was a lot that I was too late.
After the university, Edwards finally started taking his career, and he matured in a conscientious world class. In the 1992 games, he hoped to end in the first sixths and passed 17.26 m away from the event, but he was 35th in Barcelona. There was still some comfort, as well as the promise of things to come, when he reached his event at the end of the season, 17.34 m in the World World Cup.
This time he started to start competing on Sunday, and he continued to make progress when he built his peak in 1995. Distances were so impressive, some thought it was wrong, and that the results should be read 17 instead of 18 meters.
In July, he succeeded in Willy Banks, a world record for 17.98 m (1.8) in Salamanca, but he was not satisfied and went to the World Cup, which wanted to be legal in Garenburg.
His first attempt in Sweden saw him a world record of 18.16 m (1.3). Then he went even by 18.29 m (1.3) – the first 60 foot jump in the world.
He stole 6.05m, walked 5.22 meters and jumped incredible 7.05 m, becoming the first triple Jumper, returning to two worlds. Not surprisingly, he turned almost every award, which continues in late 1995, including IAAF male athletes and BBC Sports Individual. The only shortage was that everyone hung the Olympic gold medal around his neck before the Atlanta.
In part of the slow developer and the lack of junior junior success, Edwards says he is struggling that he “belonged” in elite athletics and “did not agree to success.” He explains:
Despite the victory of the 22 competitions entering the games, he jumped more than respectively 17.88 m, but finished running running, as the American was 18.09 m.
At one time, Sydney rolled around four years later, Edwards, so far, 34 years old, actually geriatric on triple jumping conditions. He also had ankle surgery in 1998.
In the games, he left 17.71 million in the third round, the most remote jump in the world all year after his best jump four years before the Atlant. It was still enough to see the challenge of Kuba and Russia’s Denis Kapustin.
So what does more Edwards mean? Olympic victory or world record.
“The world record,” he said emphatically. “I think the reason is quite simple. The world record sets me more than my Olympic title.
He describes his winning sign as “garbage” in Sydney, but adds: “Look, it was amazing to win the Olympics.
“If my global record was broken 10 years later, it may turn it slightly with Sydney. But I still think that someone can be an Olympic title in your chosen discipline.
Following his athletics career, Edwards had a successful career in broadcasting. He introduced ATHLETICS from the BBC except biking, which is his great passion. He also presented praise songs at the BBC, although he is no longer a devoted Christian, because he lost his faith about 18 years ago.
He’s still a little cycles, but he is more and more likely to be at the golf course. He plays with a number of former athletes, such as Chris Arabus, Deniz Lewis and John Regis. When we talked for this interview, he was just graduating from Newcastle to the Eastern Lotter, partly, partly, in the area of ​​Golf. “I am almost 60 years old, and we just felt that we need a change,” he added.
How careful it is that he is watching athletics these days? “I will keep an eye on the triple jump when causing a big championship,” he said. “But not really fun enough, because I retired to get involved with the broadcasting side of things when I lost a little.
He feels that sport has lost its gloss in recent years compared to the 1980s and its Heid in the 1990s.
He also feels that his talent will be ignored these days, if a young athlete started today. “Many of my improvements, when I first started training, were serious about physical development, not for any study development.
Sydney 2000 was a high score for the British triple flight, the fifth and Phillips sixth with Larry. Idowu went to the World Title in 2009, while Ashia Hansen enjoyed many international victories during that period. For comparison, Britain did not have tripled waterfalls at the Olympic Games last year or will not have a worldwide world.
“Atleticus has undoubtedly decreased in terms of popularity and participation,” said Edwards. “I mean there is a running boom, but it has more to do with health and fitness.
“I do not think that athletics have really kept a sports professional, and, of course, the remuneration are not in the athletes with other sports.
“It’s a tough sport. There is no farther from it.
“I think that opportunities for young people at school are likely to be minimal when it comes to attracting athletics because it’s just unpleasant.
He could predict in 1995 that the BBC and AW would still train the sport for about 30 years.
“I would have, but I would make it grow up. I don’t think it’s there.
Is he surprised that his global record is in the test of time?
“After jumping that distance, my immediate thought was that I would break again.” He smiles. “I thought I would become a better athlete. I will be faster. I will be stronger. My technique will improve because it’s always good because it’s always good.
“It simply came to our notice then that if I could do it easily, I can make it more difficult. And I was only harder.
“The idea we are sitting here is 30 years, no matter how much it is remarkable and with a completely thought that it is pointless.
“I think it’s crazy and the fact that lasted 30 years is the same amount of crazyness.”
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