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Date Added: August 03, 2008 03:12:01 PM

NBC hopes to take Games watching to a new level, and raise the bar for mega-events to come. LOOK AT Bob Beamon's record 29-foot, 2 1/2-inch long jump from the 1968 Summer Olympics on YouTube; it almost looks like a grainy animation. It was perhaps the greatest single Olympic performance ever -- after all, no one had long-jumped even 28 feet before and there has only been one jump longer than ...

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