Summary Of Miracle Jump And The Only Photo That Mattered

The article “The Story Behind Bob Beamon’s Miracle Jump And The Only Photo That Mattered” was written by David Davis in late 2015. This story starts out talking about the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and a photographer who knew his whole career would change with a single photo. Tony Duffy was on vacation in Mexico City and observed the Olympics in the nosebleed sections. Before attending Mexico City, he was sitting poolside with British long jumper Mary Rand inside the Athletes’ Village in California. He overheard other athletes taking about the men's long jump and started to pay attention to all of their comments. Then the topic went to Bob Beamon, a 6’3 160 pound long jumper. Duffy then thought to himself on the fact that Beamon would be worth watching. Duffy turned to photography as a hobby and that brought him luck at the 1968 Olympics. …show more content…
While the attention was focused on something else, Duffy snuck into the field and was right in front of the long jump pit. The weather that day was perfect and gave the athletes almost a great advantage of breaking the world record. Beamon was up and he had the wind going with him. After Beamon jumped, he said he looked at the officials and their jaws dropped, Beamon started thinking he fouled and it didn’t count. After a minute, Beamon came to his teammates and they told him that it was over 29 feet, a new world record. Beamon wasn’t the only who did something great, Duffy captured the greatest photo that day, and it was of Beamon’s highest peak of his jump. The photo went viral and so did the world