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Tuariki Delamere’s Somersault Could Have Launched a New Era in the Olympic Long Jump

Tuariki Delamere’s Somersault Could Have Launched a New Era in the Olympic Long Jump

[html]The New Zealander came up with a better way to jump, using a front flip in midair. But the sport’s stodgy authorities shut him down before the 1975 Games.[/html]

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