| What does it matter Who you
can flatter As long as you reach for the sky? |
The high jumper must free the body’s mass from gravity’s fierce grip and send it
vertically over a cross-bar - ever higher than imaginable limits. Here the athletes have
to keep account of their build, of the length of their limbs, of run-up speed, of their
ability to relax, of suppleness, of power and of coordination. They are geometricians of
space who master supernatural arcs with explosive drive. The movements of each gigantic
parabola must be controlled to the millimetre. Everything is linked as they accelerate
towards lift-off. The high jumper challenges the infinities of space and gravity. |
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