Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the French daily, L'Equipe, published a picture of Yuri in action. Every high-jumper who saw it leaped to a quick-conclusion: there was something sneaky about the Soviet jumper's sneakers. The sole of the take-off shoe looked uncommonly thick. Maybe it was bouncy enough to give Igor and Yuri an extra boost...
...Moscow last week, Coach Nicolai Komenkov insisted that there was nothing wrong with his boys' platform soles. But no one got a chance to inspect the shoes, and the International Amateur Athletic Federation decided to investigate. "The rules say nothing about the foot gear of a high jumper," said the I.A.A.F.'s Paul Mericamp, "but the federation has to take a stand on this phenomenon...
...years in the army. He went to work for a Suez Canal contractor, had been jobless since the British invasion when he wrote a letter to Box F-1794 the Times, in answer to a classified ad for an advertising salesman. Wrote Powell: "I can ride a show jumper or fight a duel. I can swim a river, kick a cad where it hurts-or play chess with a debutante. I once shot a bandit in Sumatra. I could do anything from baby sitting to playing a balalaika in the Andes...
...technique that tamed sport parachuting, according to Istel, is sky diving, in which the jumper controls his body as he hurtles toward earth before pulling his ripcord. The skillful sky diver leaves the plane spread-eagled, looking somewhat like a highboard swan diver, his body horizontal. Despite falling speeds up to 120 m.p.h.. the body is remarkably stable in this position. Properly executed, a sky dive is spinproof (accidental spins can whirl or tumble the body up to three times a second, black out the jumper) and keeps the diver on his belly, so his backpack chute can open...
...Fort Bragg, N.C. "All troops away," sang the crew engineer into the intercom, and then he began routinely pulling in the static lines, which were wind-plastered against the fuselage. Suddenly he realized that one was stuck fast, looked down and under the plane to see a sprawling jumper being dragged through space, belly up, eight feet beneath the fuselage...