Before we move onto all the technicalities and formal rules of long
jump, here are some long jump basics to get you started. As you all
know, the long jump is a sport in which (as the name suggests), the
athlete who jumps the longest by legal means, wins. Basically, this is
all that the sport is about. The athlete begins running from his or her
starting position and after attaining sufficient velocity, jumps,
landing in a sand pit, which is fitted with distance markers. There is a
foul line, in the run-up area, that the athlete has to be aware of;
jumping from beyond this line results in a 'foul jump'. Jumpers try to
get as close to the foul line as legally possible before initiating
their jump. This entire process is governed by a certain set of rules.
Let us see what they are
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