Just name who do you think has the highest vertical leaps in basketball. Ill name one.:
. . . . [Bill] Russell went, took on Charles Dumas, the top jumper in the world, and pushed him to 6’9 ¼”. It was the best high jump in the United States up to that point in the season.After both had cleared that height, Dumas wanted to call it a tie, but Russell said, “Whatthe heck. Let’s reach for the sky,” and asked the officials to set the bar at seven feet. I read the newspaper report the next day. Dumas missed badly on all three tries.“Russell,” the story said, “just nicked the bar with his knee on the way down on his firsttwo tries, and he was over on his third try, but ticked the bar with his ankle after his body had passed over.” The bar shuddered, almost stayed up, and then fell into the pit."
The guy cleared a 7 foot high jump but his ankle ticked the bar.
Here is the complete article.
www1.umn.edu/ohr/img/assets/18007/griffin2.pdf
2007-08-30
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