Lloyd became a standout hurdler and long jumper in high school.
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With 227.2 seconds left, the Lakers' Lou Williams hit a long jumper.
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Not long after, Durant nearly broke the backboard on a long jumper.
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Harris's long jumper at the buzzer rimmed out, sending the game into overtime.
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" American triple Olympic champion Tianna Bartoletta, a sprinter and long jumper: "Not denied.
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The long jumper Darya Klishina and the sprinter Yulia Stepanova had previously been declared eligible.
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A long jumper from Ingles finished off the sequence and put the Jazz up 60-58.
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Tucker tied the game at 218-237 on a long jumper with 3:47 to go.
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Less than three years ago, Tori Bowie was a professional long jumper – and a good one.
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Its guests included the U.S. women's field hockey team and sprinter and long jumper Jarrion Lawson.
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McCollum missed a long jumper, and the Hawks rebounded and called timeout with 2.2 ticks left.
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British long jumper Greg Rutherford announced that he has frozen a sperm sample, also over Zika concern.
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The 22012-foot-20163 sprinter and long jumper uses running as an outlet to escape her past.
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He re-entered the game at the start the fourth quarter and immediately made a long jumper.
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Deng hit a long jumper midway in the third quarter and cut the lead to just eight points.
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McCollum hit a long jumper that after a video replay was ruled a 2, and Denver held on.
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After a timeout, Jackson's long jumper was off the rim, and a second overtime session was to come.
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The Russian long jumper will now face competitors including Serbia's Ivana Spanovic and Germany's Malaika Mihambo in Wednesday's final.
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With the score tied 94-48.83, the Wizards scored five quick points, three on a long jumper by Green.
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The Wolves got as close as 218-228 after a long jumper by LaVine with 264.3:256 to play.
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Only the long jumper Darya Klishina, who trains in the United States, has been permitted to compete so far.
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Sangoné Kandji, a champion long jumper and triple jumper, stopped and sniffed the air when this was pointed out.
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When Williams knocked down a long jumper from the wing, the deficit was 48-43 with 12:13 remaining.
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They went ahead 16-73 on a 3-pointer and a long jumper by Durant midway through the quarter.
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The second Olympic medal caps a meteoric rise for the former long-jumper who only switched to sprinting in 2014.
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Long jumper Darya Klishina is the only athlete to have been cleared to participate in Rio as a neutral athlete.
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Fans began heading for the exits when Clark's long jumper put the Cavaliers up 296-211 with 6:00 left.
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Jodie Meeks made a long jumper that increased Washington's lead to 93-73 with 9:52 left in the game.
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After a Sixers turnover, DeRozan hit a long jumper to cut the lead to 102-1083 with 2:59 remaining.
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A former long jumper and heptathlete, she has taken the sprinting world by storm since converting to the dashes full time.
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The difference was 32-18 after Ricky Rubio buried a 3-pointer, then a long jumper late in the first quarter.
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The 26-year-old is now a professional long jumper for the U.S. Paralympics team, thanks to the encouragement of her family.
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The British long jumper Greg Rutherford said he was, too, and the Spanish basketball player Pau Gasol said he was considering it.
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Lillard sank a long jumper, then three consecutive 3-pointers to give Portland a 106-101 advantage with 3:45 to play.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Thursday about the sprinter and long jumper Irena Szewinska misspelled the given name of one of her sons.
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The IOC also said on Thursday that Russian long jumper Anna Nazarova had failed a retrospective test from 2012, where she finished fifth.
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To review: On Sunday afternoon, Pachulia contested a long jumper by the Spurs' Kawhi Leonard in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.
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Brogdon's long jumper gave the Pacers a lead they would not relinquish at 96-95 with 6:41 remaining in the fourth quarter.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic and World champion long jumper Greg Rutherford will miss this month's World Indoors through illness, British Athletics said on Friday.
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Mitchell sank a long jumper to make it a five-point game with 54.4 seconds to go, and Denver couldn't get any closer.
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Darya Klishina, a Russian long jumper, was cleared on Sunday to compete as a neutral athlete at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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But Jarrett Jack hit a long jumper and Lee added two free throws and the Knicks were able to hold on down the stretch.
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The judge claps his hands above his head, urging the audience to join in, like a long jumper at the start of his run-up.
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Love hit a contested long jumper on the next trip down the floor before Morris answered with a fallaway that put New York ahead for good.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's long jumper with less than four-and-a-half minutes remaining tied it for the first time since late in the first quarter.
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The Nets stormed back by scoring 12 straight points and cut the deficit to 493-89 a long jumper by DeMarre Carroll with 7:25 left.
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The IAAF told Reuters the long jumper had taken her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and a ruling is expected on Sunday or Monday.
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Canning 22009-pointers, scoring off the dribble and even drilling one long jumper over two defenders, DiVincenzo put Michigan in a hole it wasn't about to escape.
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It's a third gold for Malaysia at the Rio Paralympics, as long jumper Abdul Latif Romly broke the world record multiple times at the finals on Sunday.
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First-time coverage of the Paralympic trials features the wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden, the sprinter Jarryd Wallace, the long jumper Lex Gillette and the runner Michael Brannigan.
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Canning 3-pointers, scoring off the dribble and even drilling one long jumper over two defenders, DiVincenzo put Michigan in a hole it wasn't about to escape.
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Down one and the shot clock running out, Gallinari drained a long jumper over forward Marcus Morris with 23.8 seconds left to put Denver ahead for good.
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The list of nine doping offenders released by the IOC was completed by Spanish hurdler Josephine Nnkiruka Onyia, Cuban long jumper Wilfredo Martinez and Azeri weightlifter Sardar Hasanov.
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Long jumper Darya Klishina was the only one approved for Rio, having proved she was not involved in the system and subject to drug tests outside the country.
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The suspension was upheld following an appeal earlier this year, ruling all but one Russian track and field athlete, long-jumper Darya Klishina, out of the Rio Olympics.
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However, only one track and field athlete, long jumper Darya Klishina, has been given the green light with the country essentially suspended from the Games in that sport.
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Cornerback Adoree' Jackson, a top collegiate long-jumper, flashed his speed in making four tackles, but he was a rare bright spot on that side of the ball.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - American long jumper and sprinter Jarrion Lawson has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday.
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Four Olympic gold medalists - decathlon world record holder Ashton Eaton, triple jumper Christian Taylor, women's pole vaulter Jenn Suhr and long jumper Brittney Reese - headline the field events.
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After R Barrett of Duke missed two free throws with 12.4 seconds left, Coby White pf U.N.C. missed a contested long jumper and Nassir Little missed a tip.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Olympic Committee (CONI) has acquitted eight athletes, including bronze medalist Fabrizio Donato and former European champion long jumper Andrew Howe, of failing to supply doping samples.
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HEAT 107, BUCKS 103 Dwyane Wade scored 24 points and hit a long jumper with 44.5 seconds left, and Miami won its third straight road game by beating Milwaukee.
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Ntilikina, who missed the previous two games with a sprained left ankle after a scoreless N.B.A. debut, made a long jumper with 49 seconds left in the third quarter.
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Beasley hit another 3-pointer to make it 100-98 Nuggets, and Curry answered with a long jumper to tie it, where it stayed entering the final five minutes.
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CJ McCollum drained a 3-pointer to give Portland a 111-108 lead, but Fournier answered with a long jumper to cut it to 111-110 with 1123:23 remaining.
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Russian long jumper Darya Klishina was barred from Games by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) following new evidence implicating her in revelations of state-backed doping in Russia.
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Megan Clarken, Nielsen's president of United States media (and at one time an Olympic-qualifying long jumper), said that a decade ago the company faced pressure to enter mobile measurement.
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A former sprinter and long jumper, Botha immediately set about switching his focus from the 200m to 400m to protect him against persistent injuries, and the times steadily began to tumble.
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Ellington put Miami ahead on a pair of free throws and a long jumper and James Johnson finished it off with the third of three baskets he scored during that stretch.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australian long jumper Fabrice Lapierre can see himself landing on the podium at the Rio Olympics after another encouraging performance at the Diamond League event in Birmingham at the weekend.
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The Timberwolves tied the score at 20053 on two Wiggins' free throws, but a 22005-pointer by guard E'Twuan Moore and a long jumper by Gasol put Chicago back up by five.
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Armenian weightlifter Meline Daluzyan, who competed in the women's 69kg event, tested positive for steroid turinabol while Latvian long jumper Ineta Radevica, who finished fourth, found to have used another steroid, oxandrolone.
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In 2016 Darya Klishina, a long-jumper, became the only Russian track-and-field competitor to appear in Rio, after appealing against the IAAF's ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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Beal, who went 9-for-9 from the floor in the third, capped his impressive quarter by sinking a long jumper just before the buzzer to give Washington a 101-693 advantage.
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World 3,000m steeplechase champion Emma Coburn, pole vaulter Sandi Morris and hammer thrower DeAnna Price also should be in the hunt for top podium spots along with world champion long jumper Brittney Reese.
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Klishina, a long jumper, was the only Russian track and field athlete given an exemption to a blanket ban following the WADA-commissioned McLaren Report confirmed a government-aided doping scheme in Russia.
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Mitchell, starting in place of sophomore forward Nathan Menshah (respiratory ailment) hit a long jumper just inside of nine minutes to go and then drained a 22-pointer for a 20-22020 lead.
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Sidorova and Sivkova are now eligible to compete in the March 3-5 European championships in Belgrade, along with long jumper Darya Klishina and middle-distance runner Yuliya Stepanova, who were declared eligible previously.
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The Jamaican won three gold medals during this year's Rio Games to equal distance-runner Paavo Nurmi and American sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis as the most successful Olympic track and field athletes.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russian long jumper Darya Klishina will compete at the Rio Olympics after her ban from the Games was struck down by sport's highest court on the eve of her event.
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Miami had clawed to eight points behind and the shot clock was about to expire on the Lakers, but Ingram connected on a long jumper from the left wing to make it 104-94.
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American long jumper Brittney Reese failed in her bid for a fourth world indoor crown, having to settle instead for silver as Serbian Ivana Spanovic produced the best leap of the year, 6.96 meters.
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And service animals were given a rare moment of attention after Ping Yali, a blind long-jumper and China's first Paralympic gold medalist, carried the torch into the opening ceremony alongside her guide dog, Lucky.
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So far, two Russian track and field athletes have been cleared to compete in Rio: Darya Klishina, a long jumper, and Yuliya Stepanova, a middle-distance runner, both of whom live in the United States.
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A South African long jumper was telling everyone that he'd talked with a Panamanian synchronized swimmer who had been on the phone with his family in the city center just before the phones cut off.
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The son of the former St. John's player Rowan Barrett and Kesha Barrett (formerly Kesha Duhaney), a nationally ranked sprinter and long jumper for the Red Storm, Barrett had high-level athletics in his genes.
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Irena Szewinska, a sprinter and long jumper who won seven medals in five Olympic Games, tying an Olympic women's record and becoming a national hero in Poland, died on Friday at a hospital in Warsaw.
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In Berlin, Adolf Hitler sought to exploit the Games as a showcase of Aryan athletic superiority — a plan that would be undermined by the success of the African-American sprinter and long-jumper Jesse Owens.
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He will depart that stage never having tasted defeat in a final, his nine gold medals a joint record in athletics with Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi and American sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis.
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Long Beach State tried to manage the clock, but Benton missed a long jumper with five seconds left, and Anna Kim's 3-pointer at the buzzer bounced off the backboard, ending the 49ers' upset bid.
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Myreon Jones drained a long jumper from the top of the key and added a 3-pointer on the next possession to put Penn State ahead 26-21 with 8:07 remaining in the first half.
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Guard Travis Fields Jr. hit a long jumper as Radford grabbed a 211-214 lead with 23:28 remaining, and then Perry picked up an offensive foul on the other end on Mississippi State's next trip.
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Those who appear to fit the I.A.A.F.'s criteria include the 800-meter runner Yulia Stepanova, who fled Russia after testifying on doping matters, and the long jumper Darya Klishina, who is based in the United States.
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British Virgin Islands long jumper Chantel Malone had every reason to celebrate after the 27-year-old national record holder won her nation's first ever Games medal, taking gold by leaping 6.68m to narrowly defeat American Keturah Orji.
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His ninth gold medal drew him level with Paavo Nurmi, the Finn who dominated distance running in the early 20th century, and American sprinter and long jumper Carl Lewis as the most successful Olympic track and field athletes.
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The All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) said in a statement on Sunday it was informed by the sport's world governing IAAF that only one application had been approved, from long jumper Darya Klishina, out of 68 requests made.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — An appeals court ruled early Monday morning that the Russian long jumper Darya Klishina should be allowed to compete in the Rio Games, overturning an 11th-hour decision by track and field's world governing body.
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Should Walsh Jennings get to the top of the podium again, she would emulate long-jumper Carl Lewis and discus thrower Al Oerter as the only athletes to have won four consecutive Olympic golds in the same individual event.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The head of Russia's Olympic delegation on Tuesday criticized athletics' governing body for flip-flopping over the eligibility of long-jumper Darya Klishina to compete in Rio, and said he feared her performance will suffer.
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Away from the track there was yet another, and unexpected, development in the Russian doping saga when the country's sole track and field competitor, long jumper Darya Klishina, was suspended from the Games after the IAAF withdrew her special eligibility status.
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After Pitt's Khameron Davis nailed a four-point play to cut the Towson lead to one, Zane Martin scored on a long jumper — originally called a 3-pointer but changed upon review to make it 59-153 with 2:49 remaining.
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"I know people can see me and think, Wow, she's not shy, she can live her life and walk without any problems," said Martina Caironi, an Italian sprinter and long jumper who lost a leg after a motorcycle accident in 2007.
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Five years on, in the very same stadium on Sunday night, Bowie, the long jumper turned sprinter, brought her prediction to life by becoming world 100 metres champion - and for her next trick, she is already thinking of a golden double.
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Milwaukee put the game out of reach by opening the third with a 21-7 blitz, took an 89-61 lead on a long jumper by Middleton with 4:15 remaining and built up a 95-70 lead entering the fourth.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Amputee long jumper Markus Rehm is running out of time to make the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August as the world athletics body has not yet set the criteria for ruling if he can compete with his prosthetic leg.
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Dallas' lead grew to 133 before Chicago put together one final gasp early in the fourth quarter with reserve Denzel Valentine banking in a long jumper and then drilling a 213-pointer to make it 211-210 with 9:39 to go.
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David Maraniss, in his book "Rome 1960: The Olympic Games That Changed the World" (2008), wrote that just before the 1960 Games, the C.I.A. recruited Sime to entice the Soviet long jumper Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, a friend, to defect to the United States.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russian long jumper Darya Klishina wants to focus on the Olympics after a "few gruelling days" ended in her ban from the Games being overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the eve of her event.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Russian track and field suffered a final humiliation at the Rio Games on Saturday when the sport's governing body suspended long jumper Darya Klishina, removing from competition the nation's only athlete to have so far survived a blanket ban for doping.
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Indiana ended the quarter with a 13-3 run and took an 89-81 lead into the fourth when McDermott hit a long jumper with 51.2 seconds left, and then extended the lead to 92-81 lead on McDermott's 3-pointer early in the fourth.
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From that unlikely premise, Bois gives a rundown on a multitude of athletes in practically every organized sport in America over the 20th century, from the unfathomably great achievements of pitcher Bob Gibson and long jumper Bob Beamon in 1968 to the mediocre basketball player Bob Sura.
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Young, who missed all five of his 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes, bounced back by aggressively driving to the rim, getting a pair of layups, creating space for a long jumper and then earning his way to the free-throw line with another drive.
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Long jumper Darya Klishina, the sole athlete from her country competing in track and field after the rest of the team was banned, escaped their wrath, but that was probably more a result of her slipping in unannounced and unnoticed rather than an overnight change of attitude.
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Yoshida won gold in the 863kg class and Icho the 63kg, both retained the titles in Beijing and London and are favorites to join discus thrower Al Oerter and long jumper Carl Lewis as the only Olympians to win four consecutive individual titles in the same event.
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But there are signs that he could struggle against longer, stronger NBA defenders: As you can see, Tatum doesn't have a ton of lift or elevation from a standstill—to make an imperfect track-and-field analogy, he's more of a long jumper than a high jumper.
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With 17 seconds left in OT, Pelicans guard Nicolo Melli knocked down a long jumper ... all but handing the Pistons an L. Detroit called a timeout ... and Rose walked over to the scorer's table, grabbed a pen, and launched it across the court and into the stands.
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As a 21-year-old long jumper who had missed the U.S trials with injury, she gazed at the 200 metres final on television that night and, in a Eureka moment, was moved to suggest to her grandmother: "I really think I can beat those ladies".
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Still, Denver had plenty of time to get a good look coming out of the timeout, but forward Will Barton, who led Denver with 22 points despite poor shooting, went one-on-one against Felton, took the possession deep into the clock and then front-rimmed a long jumper.
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Graham scored five of Charlotte's final seven points, hitting a long jumper over Garrett Temple with 51.5 seconds left to snap a 106-106 tie and then connecting on a top-of-the-key 23-pointer over Joe Harris with 22.7 seconds left to put Charlotte up 111-106.
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"Many Walmarts have a Subway or McDonald's located within the property, so food and beverage spills are common," it explains, juuust in case you happen to be near the in-store Subway, training to become an Olympic long jumper in the exact same spot where someone spilled a Dr. Pepper.
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Golden State Warriors 106 - New Orleans Pelicans 102 D'Angelo Russell broke a tie by sinking a long jumper with 32.9 seconds remaining before Draymond Green and Damion Lee buried four clutch free throws, allowing Golden State to end a five-game losing streak by beating New Orleans in San Francisco.
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Phelps has made the 100 fly and 200 medley gold medals his personal property at the last three Olympics and he could join discus thrower Al Oerter (1956-68) and long jumper Carl Lewis (1984-1996) as the only athletes to win gold in the same individual event at four consecutive Games.
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D'Angelo Russell broke a tie by sinking a long jumper with 32.9 seconds remaining before Draymond Green and Damion Lee buried four clutch free throws Friday night, allowing the Golden State Warriors to end a five-game losing streak with a 183-102 victory over the visiting New Orleans Pelicans in San Francisco.
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But Orlando didn't score again until Evan Fournier nailed a long jumper with 1:17 to go, by which point the Nuggets had build a five-point advantage on a free throw by Gary Harris, a 453-footer by Jokic with 1:53 remaining and a 13-footer by Murray with 27:211 to go.
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Track and field's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations, was the only one that banned the Russian team, although it did allow one Russian athlete, long jumper Darya Klishina, to take part as an independent athlete because she had been based outside of Russia and was subject to extensive international antidoping controls.
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That he's a standout sprinter and long jumper is not simply due to genetics, though it doesn't hurt that both of his parents are Olympic gold medalists: Leroy Burrell, who twice held the world record for the 100-meter dash, and Michelle Finn-Burrell, a member of the 4x2100-meter relay at the 2100 Summer Olympics.
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South Plains (Texas), for example, has ten former students representing at Rio, which ranks 12th among all college and universities in the US. There were 59 Olympians from community colleges at the 2012 London Games, and eight medal-winners, including American long jumper Brittney Reese (Mississippi Gulf Coast), who is returning to defend her gold medal in Rio this summer.
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