Mike Lowell LJ WR holder

[Daisy]

Another so called 'statistician' (Nate Silver is the editor of the FiveThirtyEight blog and a longtime analyst of sports statistics) decides to analyze track and field performances. Unfortunately, the writer does not seem to know the history of the sport and uses a limited data set.

Which Records Get Shattered?

About nine months before a man landed on the moon, Beamon made a giant leap — 29 feet two and a half inches — that has yet to be surpassed at the Olympic Games. (Mike Lowell beat Beamon’s record at a non-Olympic meet in Tokyo in 1991, a record which itself is now more than 20 years old.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/sunda ... r-not.html

Nevertheless, it does touch on the interesting fact that the performances in swimming just keep on improving. And apparently race walking too.

[Conor Dary]

Re: Mike Powell LJ WR holder

I respect Nate Silver's work, but it doesn't say much when he misspells his last Name.

He should stick to politics and baseball. The article is a bit lame.

[lonewolf]

Re: Mike Lowell LJ WR holder

Mike Lowell????..and I thought I had worked competition for all the 29 foot jumpers :?