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In the long jump competition, the athlete who jumps the longest wins. The athlete begins running from his or her starting position and takes off from the designated foul line, landing in a sand pit with distance markers. If the athlete happens to cross the front edge of the foul line, this results in a foul jump.
In high jump, athletes are competing against each other in jumping as high as possible over a horizontal bar. Each athlete has three attempts at each height. If an athlete fails to perform jump for three consecutive times, he or she would be eliminated.
US figure skater Mirai Nagasu talked about becoming the first woman from the US and only the 3rd ever to land a Triple Axel at the Winter Olympics in a press conference in Pyeongchang on Sunday. 24-year-old Nagasu landed the rare jump on February 11 during the figure skating team competition , lifting Team USA to bronze. The triple axel is a forward-facing jump with three and a half rotations.
Usain Bolt claims his ninth Olympic gold medal as Jamaica wins the men's 4x100 metre relay in Rio. Natasha Howitt reports.
Olympic weightlifting is comprised of two events: the snatch, and the ‘clean and jerk.’ In the snatch, the bar is lifted from the floor to above the athlete’s head in one single motion. The clean and jerk motion is a two-stage movement, lifting the bar from the ground to shoulder height, and then overhead.
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