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*Sigh* Idiots are basing it off thinking that the mark she left was behind the superimposed lines of Vuleta and Iapchino, or that the 7m marker was shown at the wrong place on the digital distance tracker beside the pit.
I replayed the gold medal winning jump several times and it's clear there are a couple of rake marks in the pit visible in the area that Sawyer's jumped into, but those obviously were not the marks she left as a result of her effort.
She was on BBC Breakfast this morning. Came across well and I have no doubt there’s a media career of some description waiting if she wants that.
Reckoned she’d hit 7m with a marginal foul as a teenager to which my instinctive reaction was “Well, what took you so long then?”. But that’s not in the spirit of this thread!
I do like a good pun, although definitely preferring a bad one, so the highlight for me was her wearing a jumper emblazoned with the solitary word……Jumper.
We usually save out interview specials for retired legends of the sport but after this winter's exploits we 'Why wait?'. Here's everybody's favourite singing Long Jumper, Jazmin Sawyers.Big thanks to Mel Anning for editing.
Thanks for the interview... have been saying for years we need to bottle whatever Ms. Sawyers exudes and share it with underperformers... buckets of talent in so many activities ... a sort of heptathlete of life!
Listening to the Backstraight Boys interview with Ms. Sawyers she notes a 'fun fact' ... at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games she won gold in the 4 x 100 along with DASHER, Yasmin Miller and Sophie Papps, with each one having won gold in their individual events... they certainly were to go on and have very contrasting senior 'careers'.
Very good interview, Jaz when talking about making a long term decision on whether to choose between the heptathlon and long jump says she went for long jump as she wanted to win things. Great competitive instincts
Please subscribe there's more coming very soon and if you haven't already, go back and listen to the archives there's long form interviews with Denise, Christine, Karsten, Tianna Madison, Eilish, Trayvon Bromell, Christian Taylor, Fiona May and many more I can't remember tight now
Bless her! She may not have had the WC she had hoped for as a competitor but...
I think we all knew that Ms. Sawyers was a media-star-in-waiting but this early opportunity to audition for more leading roles was grasped with great authority.
She was articulate, well-informed, shared insider information and played a seemless, natural foil for the more established. Her passion and interest for all field events sparkled, her background in multi-events clearly gave her depth of knowledge and her ethusiasm was infectious. She is a confident communicator; lucid, engaging and refresingly void of cliche and rising intonation at the end of every sentence.
I doubt very much she will be consigned to a desk, out of sight of a camera, commentating on field-events only for very long ... Various broadcaster cheque books have just been opened and bidding for her signature commenced...
i would imagine she will still target Paris but beyond that a new stellar career will be launched.
In an odd world, her situation right now actually potentially adds to her (already numerous) qualities.
Because she is still in the camps/teams, she has the closeness to the team/circuit right now to provide insights that other more experienced commentators might not have been able to. Gives it all a bit more of a personal touch. I'd say that I hope the Beeb takes advantage of her talent in Paris, but given that the final of the LJ is on the 3rd to last day, I hope that we don't get to hear much of her there!!
Bless her! She may not have had the WC she had hoped for as a competitor but...
I think we all knew that Ms. Sawyers was a media-star-in-waiting but this early opportunity to audition for more leading roles was grasped with great authority.
She was articulate, well-informed, shared insider information and played a seemless, natural foil for the more established. Her passion and interest for all field events sparkled, her background in multi-events clearly gave her depth of knowledge and her ethusiasm was infectious. She is a confident communicator; lucid, engaging and refresingly void of cliche and rising intonation at the end of every sentence.
I doubt very much she will be consigned to a desk, out of sight of a camera, commentating on field-events only for very long ... Various broadcaster cheque books have just been opened and bidding for her signature commenced...
i would imagine she will still target Paris but beyond that a new stellar career will be launched.
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