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Dick Fosbury cleared the bar backwards and rewrote the high jump

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What limits human sprint speed isn't muscle power - it's time

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The javelin was redesigned because throwers got too good

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The marathon is 42.195 km because of a royal viewing box

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Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile when many thought it impossible

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Usain Bolt's 9.58 seconds is the fastest 100m ever run

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19 Jul 1903

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Maurice Garin won the first Tour de France

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