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"many track & field experts do not hold it in quite such high esteem" - while I believe this could be true, who are these "many" experts? Rocksong 07:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Modified. Fizbin 15:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
This is bad writing. What are these many factors? Change in air resistance is fairly negligable, and while having a strong wind at his back is nice, that alone isn't enough to explain it given how much it exceeded the previous record by. Titanium Dragon 20:09, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey guys: he was an African American. How on earth can that very important fact have been left out entirely???? It's not mentioned anywhere in the article. I am simply dumbfounded.
Okay, I've inserted this fact in the Intro, along with adding the article to Category:African American track and field athletes. Cgingold 07:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
It says in the article that Bob Beamon's 8.90 still is the second longest jump in history. The fact is that Mike Powell beat Beamon's world record at the World Championship in Tokyo 1991 and that Carl Lewis took the silver by jumping 8.91. So what does that make Beamon's effort in a historical perspective? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.102.211.247 ( talk) 22:23, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
The following sentence in the "1968 Summer Olympics" section is unsourced and seems to be saying something a bit different from what was (presumably) intended.
It seems doubtful (to me), that a world-class long jumper, competing in (presumably) not-his-first International Track and Field event, would be so unfamiliar with "the metric measurements" that he did not understand that he had broken the world record. If the World Record had been 8.35m and his jump was 8.9m, I believe we can assume that he understood that 8.9 is greater than 8.35 - regardless of what system of units is being used. I presume what the author might have been trying to say is something more like,
or maybe even,
But I have no source or citation to support either of these statements / presumptions either so I have flagged the statement as "needs citation" and leave it to others to seek out such a citation or (alternatively) remove the statement from this article. Pugetbill ( talk) 22:05, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Would it infringe some vitally important WP policy if, in addition to the metric measures of these various jumps currently provided in the article, their equivalents in feet and inches were also quoted in parentheses? In Beamon's country, these are still the measurements most people are familiar with on a day-to-day basis..... Nandt1 ( talk) 12:05, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Going through the History, I see that these equivalents were formerly provided in the article, and that at some stage some "very helpful" editor came along and deleted them all. Any serious substantive (as opposed to bureaucratic) reason not to revert those deletions? Nandt1 ( talk) 12:11, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
I now see it was an anonymous editor who -- without discussion -- deleted all of the equivalents in feet and inches from the article. I have now gone through and manually reinserted them all. I'd be grateful not to have to do this again. Nandt1 ( talk) 13:33, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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The core of this article is about BB's first jump in the Olympic finals. It goes on to say that his legs gave out upon learning the enormity of his effort. Did he even try to do his next two jumps? Kdammers ( talk) 07:54, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
I’m surprised there’s no mention that the altitude of Mexico City (2,240 meters or 7,350 ft) was probably a major factor in Beamon breaking the record by that much. The air is much thinner at that altitude, allowing for farther jumps. T v x1 22:17, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
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"many track & field experts do not hold it in quite such high esteem" - while I believe this could be true, who are these "many" experts? Rocksong 07:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
Modified. Fizbin 15:33, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
This is bad writing. What are these many factors? Change in air resistance is fairly negligable, and while having a strong wind at his back is nice, that alone isn't enough to explain it given how much it exceeded the previous record by. Titanium Dragon 20:09, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Hey guys: he was an African American. How on earth can that very important fact have been left out entirely???? It's not mentioned anywhere in the article. I am simply dumbfounded.
Okay, I've inserted this fact in the Intro, along with adding the article to Category:African American track and field athletes. Cgingold 07:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
It says in the article that Bob Beamon's 8.90 still is the second longest jump in history. The fact is that Mike Powell beat Beamon's world record at the World Championship in Tokyo 1991 and that Carl Lewis took the silver by jumping 8.91. So what does that make Beamon's effort in a historical perspective? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.102.211.247 ( talk) 22:23, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
The following sentence in the "1968 Summer Olympics" section is unsourced and seems to be saying something a bit different from what was (presumably) intended.
It seems doubtful (to me), that a world-class long jumper, competing in (presumably) not-his-first International Track and Field event, would be so unfamiliar with "the metric measurements" that he did not understand that he had broken the world record. If the World Record had been 8.35m and his jump was 8.9m, I believe we can assume that he understood that 8.9 is greater than 8.35 - regardless of what system of units is being used. I presume what the author might have been trying to say is something more like,
or maybe even,
But I have no source or citation to support either of these statements / presumptions either so I have flagged the statement as "needs citation" and leave it to others to seek out such a citation or (alternatively) remove the statement from this article. Pugetbill ( talk) 22:05, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Would it infringe some vitally important WP policy if, in addition to the metric measures of these various jumps currently provided in the article, their equivalents in feet and inches were also quoted in parentheses? In Beamon's country, these are still the measurements most people are familiar with on a day-to-day basis..... Nandt1 ( talk) 12:05, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
Going through the History, I see that these equivalents were formerly provided in the article, and that at some stage some "very helpful" editor came along and deleted them all. Any serious substantive (as opposed to bureaucratic) reason not to revert those deletions? Nandt1 ( talk) 12:11, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
I now see it was an anonymous editor who -- without discussion -- deleted all of the equivalents in feet and inches from the article. I have now gone through and manually reinserted them all. I'd be grateful not to have to do this again. Nandt1 ( talk) 13:33, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
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The core of this article is about BB's first jump in the Olympic finals. It goes on to say that his legs gave out upon learning the enormity of his effort. Did he even try to do his next two jumps? Kdammers ( talk) 07:54, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
I’m surprised there’s no mention that the altitude of Mexico City (2,240 meters or 7,350 ft) was probably a major factor in Beamon breaking the record by that much. The air is much thinner at that altitude, allowing for farther jumps. T v x1 22:17, 18 October 2023 (UTC)