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American sprint legend Michael Johnson has added his comments on World Athletics' idea to change the long jump format.
Four-time Olympic champion Michael Johnson has weighed in on World Athletics' idea to change the long jump format.
Johnson, the American sprint legend is always known for his vocal nature and with the long jump debate going on for weeks now, he decided to give his idea.
Former long jumper and four-time Olympic champion Carl Lewis had made a comment on X (Twitter) handle shutting down the people who think the sport format should be changed.
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He said: “I'm so over this debate... Would all of these so-called "experts" please go somewhere and sit down.
“The event is not broken and does not need your opinions. You can not legislate farther distances. Athletes just have to commit and get it done. It was done before, do it again!!!”
Following the comment from Lewis, Johnson replied to him saying: “The problem with this entire Long Jump debate is a lack of agreement/understanding of the problem or if indeed there is actually a problem.
“Very difficult to solve a problem if there’s no agreement on the actual problem and why a solve is needed. All the focus is on solutions for an undefined problem. Chaos ensues. Problem unsolved.”
Meanwhile, World Athletics contemplating changing the format of the sport following data from last year’s World Championships in Budapest, Hungary which revealed that a third of attempts ended in no-jumps as competitors try to push the limits of the board.
World Athletics CEO Jon Ridgeon disclosed that the new format would see all jumps legalised so long as they took off from a new “jump zone”.
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