One of the most exciting and difficult sports in athletics is the long jump. The sport derives from the Ancient Olympic Games, as being the only jumping event of the Ancient Olympic’s pentathlon. As a sport the long jump (also called as broad jump) is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take-off point. Along with the triple jump, the other event that also measure jumping for distance, as a group, are referred to as the “horizontal
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A commonly used criterion to categorize sports is according to their venue. Therefore, they belong either to outdoor or indoor. The majority of them is characterized as outdoor, as they usually have less requirements regarding facilities. This implies though that athletes’ performance can be affected by a variety of exogenous
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