SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Jasmine Moore always loved jumping. For a while when she was a kid, she thought all those leaps, with a few twirls mixed in, might make her part of America’s Team — as a ...

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World Athletics will trial a new format for the long jump this year in a bid to reduce the number of fouls in competition – but the idea to change the long-standing event has received plenty of ...

(Gray News) - Tara Davis-Woodhall of the United States won gold in the women’s long jump event Thursday at the Paris Olympics. Davis-Woodhall won her first Olympic title, and first Olympic medal of ...

Ivana Spanovic is a world-class long jumper from Serbia. She is a four-time Olympian and won the bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio. Spanovic has the third-best long jump indoors, a leap of ...

Tara Davis-Woodhall competes in the long jump in Times Square Athlos It was on Broadway, the home of theatre in New York City, where a one-off long jump competition became more of a show than an ...

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A proposed format change could shake-up the long jump at major track and field competitions, but will the idea take flight? That’s the big question for those involved in the sport right now, notably ...

BUDAPEST, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece was involved in yet another last-round drama as he won long jump gold at the World Championships when his final leap of 8.52 ...