Every day, Olympic long jump champion Dwight Phillips watches a tape of the extraordinary leap into the future with which Bob Beamon took the world record into the stratosphere.

"I watch it every day as part of my motivation," Phillips told a teleconference hosted by the U.S. Olympic committee in the buildup to the Beijing Games. "I watch it everywhere. I've watched it a thousand times."

Photographs: Getty Images | Text: John Mehaffey/Reuters

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