TRIPLE JUMPING FAR
(2021 Tokyo Olympics - Triple jump podium - Zhu Yaming, Pedro Pichardo and Hugues Zango, left to right) 5:11 AM (2/2/22): "Ever since a Fall 2016 indoor track meet at the Ocean Breeze Athletic complex, in Staten Island, NY... in which I had taken '3' jumps, and allegedly jumped '53 feet even' on the third one (after the first was 47'0" and the second a 'foul')... I had retained the hope that with the 'right guidance' and weight training/conditioning... I would have the means to be a formidable force... in the triple jump, at the international level... The '53 footer (16.15 meters*),' was not ratified as official, because I recollect a dude shaking his head... as though he was thinking, 'this can't be real,' after the jump had been executed... and then he and some other official said that the measuring device was 'not taut (straight),' and recalibrations... had to be made... So, in a sense... I concluded they we