The Olympics aren't just about winning gold medals - they also give athletes a chance to get their names in the record books. And while it's highly unlikely anyone is going to walk away from Rio with more medals than Michael Phelps, everyone sure can try. Here, eight interesting Olympic records all athletes can aspire to break: 1. The longest long jump.This will be one to beat in Rio. Why? Because no one has managed to do so since the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, when Bob Beamon made an 8.9-meter jump. While the world record has been broken, (in 1991, by...
- 8/3/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- PEOPLE.com
The Olympics aren't just about winning gold medals - they also give athletes a chance to get their names in the record books. And while it's highly unlikely anyone is going to walk away from Rio with more medals than Michael Phelps, everyone sure can try. Here, eight interesting Olympic records all athletes can aspire to break: 1. The longest long jump.This will be one to beat in Rio. Why? Because no one has managed to do so since the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, when Bob Beamon made an 8.9-meter jump. While the world record has been broken, (in 1991, by...
- 8/3/2016
- by Diana Pearl, @dianapearl_
- PEOPLE.com
“‘It’s not for me.’”
To be fair, that’s how 99.9999% of humans would respond to someone asking them if they’d like to jump out of a plane, traveling at 25,000 feet. With no parachute. And no wingsuit.
Yet, two years after the idea was first broached to him, that’s exactly what Luke Aikins will do on Saturday as part of Fox’s live “Stride Gum Presents Heaven Sent” event.
It’s there that Aikins will look to join a succession of escalating televised shows of athletic daring that has its DNA in the Evel Kneivel jumps of the ’60s and ’70s and that has continued through another massive televised event like Felix Baumgartner’s 2012 Red Bull Stratos dive. Aikins worked with Baumgartner as part of the training staff that prepared him to jump from the outer limits of space, nearly 25 miles from orbit to landing on Earth.
“I...
To be fair, that’s how 99.9999% of humans would respond to someone asking them if they’d like to jump out of a plane, traveling at 25,000 feet. With no parachute. And no wingsuit.
Yet, two years after the idea was first broached to him, that’s exactly what Luke Aikins will do on Saturday as part of Fox’s live “Stride Gum Presents Heaven Sent” event.
It’s there that Aikins will look to join a succession of escalating televised shows of athletic daring that has its DNA in the Evel Kneivel jumps of the ’60s and ’70s and that has continued through another massive televised event like Felix Baumgartner’s 2012 Red Bull Stratos dive. Aikins worked with Baumgartner as part of the training staff that prepared him to jump from the outer limits of space, nearly 25 miles from orbit to landing on Earth.
“I...
- 7/28/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
This is the Pure Movies review of Salute directed by Matt Norman and starring Christopher Kirby, Bob Beamon and Ralph Boston. Written by Michael Holder for @puremovies With the Olympic Games now well underway, any prior pockets of British cynicism have inevitably crumbled to ambivalence under the barrage of media coverage of Team Gb’s successes. TV schedules full of life-affirming documentaries showcasing sporting spirit and endeavour past and present were irresistible, if a little suffocating. But not every Olympic story has a happy ending, and not every daring moment of human sacrifice and achievement is given its due recognition or support, as this fresh if not entirely successful documentary film shows.
- 8/25/2012
- by Michael Holder
- Pure Movies
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