By Larry Schwartz Special to ESPN.com. Six seconds. That's all it took for Bob Beamon to leap into history. That's all it took for the slender 22 ...
Forty-five years ago today, at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Bob Beamon, a lanky twenty-two year old from South Jamaica, Queens, won the gold medal in the long jump with a belief-defying jump ...
The key to learning something new is total commitment. You've got to shut out the part of your brain that finds excuses. It's like when I was getting ready to take my long jump in the 1968 Olympics in ...
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