US long jumper Bob Beamon parted with the Olympic gold medal he won at the 1968 Mexico City summer games leaping 29 feet -- the standing Olympic record -- for $441,000 on Thursday.
Forty-five years ago today, at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Bob Beamon, a lanky twenty-two year old from South Jamaica, Queens, won the gold medal in the long jump with a belief-defying jump ...
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