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By contrast with the current drug scandal that has tarnished the sport and Jones's once stellar reputation, this was the kind of controversy devotees of the sport could embrace -- an insider, highly technical debate over Jones's long-jumping prowess.
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His unsurpassed talent in long-jumping and sprinting became a surprise, even to himself.
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But he hadn't done any long-jumping since his undergraduate days.
Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999
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For a long time he is speechless; then he comments, gazing ruefully at his toe: "My long-jumping days are over!"
Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973
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The answer was, that they were contending with one another in putting the weight and long-jumping.
The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi
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Britain is also on fire in the long-jumping department at the moment, and Chris Tomlinson continued his rich vein of form with a leap of 8.30m - just 5cm down on the British record he set in Paris last month.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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"I like to run and I'd always been long-jumping in elementary, so I just decided to do it," she said.
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"I like to run and I'd always been long-jumping in elementary, so I just decided to do it," she said.
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"I like to run and I'd always been long-jumping in elementary, so I just decided to do it," she said.
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"I like to run and I'd always been long-jumping in elementary, so I just decided to do it," she said.
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