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05/04/2024 13:52
On This Day... April 5th.

On This Day – April 5th Forty-four years ago on this very day, four records were broken in one match. This extract from ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Like… – The History of Maesteg Harlequins R.F.C.’ explains what happened on this day. The world long-jump record had been broken thirteen times from the years 1901 to 1967. The average increase in distance was 2½ inches or six centimetres in modern metric measurements. Then Bob Beamon came along. At the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, the American destroyed the standing record not by a couple of inches, but by nearly two entire feet! What has Be.....

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