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	BBC SPORT Olympics 2004 Athletics Powell to make shock return
		But Powell, who earlier in his career had been nicknamed "Mike Foul" for his inability to hit the take-off board correctly, then came up with the greatest jump in history, an incredible 8.95m, to blow away a record many had thought was unbreakable.
		Powell's duel with Lewis at the 1991 World Championships is widely regarded as one of the great moments in athletics history.
		World long jump record holder Mike Powell is to make a shock bid to win an Olympic medal at the age of 40.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/3766415.stm (531 words)

	Mike Powell biography .ms
		After the 1996 Olympics, Powell retired, but he returned in 2001 with a goal of competing in the 2004 Olympics.
		At the 1993 World Championships in Athletics (Tokyo) he broke Bob Beamon's 23-year-old long jump world record by 5 cm (2 inches) leaping 8.95 m (29 ft 4.5 in).
		He won long jump silver medals at both the 1988 Olympics and 1992 Olympics; in 1993 he was again world champion.
	mike-powell.biography.ms (108 words)

	1991 World Championships in Athletics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The event is best-remembered for the men's long jump competition, when Carl Lewis made the best six-jump series in history, only to be beaten by Mike Powell, whose 8.95 m jump broke Bob Beamon's epic world record from the 1968 Summer Olympics.
		The 3rd World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, Japan between August 23 and September 1.
		This page was last modified 19:09, 20 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1991_World_Championships_in_Athletics (109 words)

	Long jump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On August 30 of that year, Mike Powell of the USA leapt 8.95 meters at the World Championships in Tokyo.
		The current world record for women is held by of the former Soviet Union who leapt 7.52 meters in Leningrad in 1988.
		The long jump (formerly called broad jump) is an athletic (track and field) event in which athletes attempt to land as far from their take-off points as possible.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Long_jump (440 words)

	World Championships burst into life
		The ninth world championships did lack the dramatic confrontations of the past, such as Carl Lewis versus Ben Johnson over the 100 in 1987 in Rome or the Lewis-Mike Powell long jump competition in Tokyo four years later.
		But any championships in which the U.S. do not win the men's 100 gold are regarded as a qualified success only by the Americans.
		After a slow start in oppressive heat, the Paris world championships burst into life in cool autumn weather over the final weekend.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2003/sep/01athchamp.htm (734 words)

	Carl Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, he was challenged in that event as well, as compatriot Mike Powell won an exciting duel at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, in which the legendary record of Bob Beamon from 1968 was finally broken.
		After he had repeated his 1983 performance at the World Championships in Rome in 1987, he was set for four more golds at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
		At the inaugural World Championships in 1983, Lewis won his first major titles, achieving victory in the 100 m, long jump and the 4 x 100 m relay events.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Carl_Lewis (1048 words)

	The Reality of Malaysian Sports
		And in the same championship, the titanic battle in the long jump where Lewis's form produced his personal best (8.83m) was not good enough to stop Mike Powell's 8.95m.
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	www.geocities.com /thetropics/3714/realist.html (904 words)

	newindpress on sunday - News Items
		After Anju�s win in Paris, Mike Powell had commented that she would win at the Olympics.
		Anju�s preparations for the World Athletics Final in Monaco suffered a setback when she was robbed of all her valuables, including her passport, in Paris.
		Anju is now the undisputed queen of Indian athletics.
	www.newindpress.com /sunday/sundayitems.asp?id=SES20030919075606&eTitle=Sport&rLink=0 (904 words)

	'I went all out for a medal'
		Bobby George said Mike Powell, who was also at the Stade de France watching the competition, was very pleased with the performance of his two students on show, Anju and Hussein Taher al-Sabee of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who surprised many by finishing fifth in the men's event with a jump of 8.10m.
		Twelve years later, Powell had even more reason to rejoice on this date, as his pupil Anju Bobby George� achieved another 'impossible' dream, becoming the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal at the World Athletics Championships.
		Anju Bobby George created history, India's first medal-winner at the World Championships.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2003/aug/31athanju.htm (904 words)

	University of Delaware Athletics News
		FIRST TEAM: Attack: Ryan Powell, Syracuse; Conor Gill, Virginia; Dan Denihan, Johns Hopkins; Midfield: Josh Sims, Princeton; Jay Jalbert, Virginia; AJ Haugen, Johns Hopkins; Mike Battista, Loyola; Defense: Ryan Curtis, Virginia; Marshall Abrams, Syracuse; Stephen Card, Duke; Brian Spallina, Hofstra; Goalie: Mickey Jarboe, Navy
		Please direct Athletics questions to the Sports Information office.
		One of the nation's most exciting defensive players, Ciliberto led the team with 78 groundballs and in faceoff wins with 64 and earned first team All-America East honors.
	www.udel.edu /sportsinfo/news/Cilibertoall-america.html (439 words)

	IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
		The 1991 IAAF World Championship Long Jump showdown between Mike Powell and Carl Lewis is remembered as a tremendous contest, the 1995 Triple Jump final in Gothenburg, where Jonathan Edwards twice broke the World record.
		Lebedeva’s extraordinary feat of taking two titles in the action-packed weekend was all the more extraordinary simply because of the tremendous highs she had managed in Saturday’s Triple Jump final.
		Lebedeva had had a frantic Saturday, needing to qualify for the long jump in the morning before competing in her speciality, the triple jump, in the evening.
	www.iaaf.org /news/newsId=24411,printer.html (439 words)

	Colonial Center Has Busiest Month In The World This Past April :: Gamecock Arena Ranks #1 Worldwide For April Sales
		"It was our belief that the Colonial Center would be a success because we knew Columbia and the entire state of South Carolina would respond positively and this past April's schedule proves that," said Mike McGee, USC Director of Athletics.
		Powell, Howell to play on Lakers Summer League team
		Columbia, S.C. The Colonial Center, the home of the University of South Carolina Gamecock basketball teams, was the busiest arena in the world in terms of concert and entertainment show ticket sales for the month of April, 2004.
	www.uscsports.com /sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/093004aaa.html (439 words)

	Anju George sets ambitious target
		George received a further boost last year when she had a training stint at the Californian academy of men's world record holder Mike Powell.
		The Asian Games champion is rated as India's best athletics prospect at the August 13-29 Athens Games, but George knows she will have to do much better if she is to create history.
		George rose to the Olympic challenge by announcing boldly that she had set herself the ambitious target of jumping seven metres during at least one of the dozen meetings she had lined up on the road to Athens in August.
	in.rediff.com /sports/2004/may/14oly-anju.htm (439 words)

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