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...fact, been a serious weakness for the Vikings in recent years. But this season, with good rookies like Autry Beamon at safety and Mark Mullaney at defensive end. Head Coach Bud Grant may finally have enough fresh bodies to keep his team strong in the playoffs. Even if he did not, Grant would keep pushing his players week after week. A terse disciplinarian with a penchant for rulemaking (he demands jackets and ties while on the road and has issued a ban on beards and flashy white tape on shoes), Grant, 48, even prohibits space heaters from the sideline...
Witness the 29-ft. 21-in. winning long jump of America's Bob Beamon at Mexico, which shattered the world record by nearly two feet; Beamon has never since come close to that prodigious leap. Then there are the form favorites who somehow fail to produce their best at the Games. In the men's discus throw, four world record holders in a row have missed winning the gold medal; each time it went to the same man: steady, nerveless Al Oerter...
...Beamon breaks the world long-jump record by almost two feet with a leap...
...Jesse Owens set a long-jump mark of 26 ft. 8¾ in. that stood for 25 years. Since 1960, Boston and Ter-Ovanesyan have between them broken the record six times, but managed to increase it by a grand total of only 8½ in. Then came Beamon. He charged down the runway and powered off the board, hands and arms flapping like a giant awkward bird. His body jackknifed, his legs spread-eagled before he slammed into the pit. When the Scoreboard flashed the result, the crowd gasped with disbelief. Beamon sank to his knees, hands clasped...
...meters to tie his own pending world record, and Georgia's Wyomia Tyus won the women's 100 in 11 sec. flat. Then, in the field events, there was Al Oerter's fourth straight discus victory and Bob Beamon's incredible long jump...