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Congratulations Ukraine 🇺🇦! They win gold and bronze in women’s high jump!
Wow. I was more of a sprinter and suffered at long distances. You must have been very athletic with both high jumping and running the mile.
My best high jump was 6', 1" and my best mile time was 5:28. I didn't smoke then (and wish I had never started, but that's another story). I played for the HS basketball team in the off-season and was not a starter, but I had fun playing and managed to get in to a few games. I am 6', 2" tall, so I was only ever a guard, but it was fun. I was lucky enough to be pretty athletic when I was younger, but now I have difficulty walking (diabetic neuropathy hurts).
Getting older sucks.
@evamarie
Back when I was in HS, I was part of the track team - miler and high jumper. I was a "flopper", like Dick Fosbury, and one of my heroes was Dwight Stones, along with the late Steve Prefontaine, a distance runner who died in a tragic auto accident in 1975.