2008 Beijing Olympic Preview: Men’s Triple Jump
Posted August 9th, 2008 at 11:05 PM by Jesse Squire
Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics
Men’s Triple Jump
The Schedule: qualifying, Monday Aug 18; final, Thursday Aug 21
The Americans: #8 Aarik Wilson, #14 Kenta Bell, Rafeeq Curry
The Contenders: #1 Phillips Idowu (GBR), #2 Nelson Évora (POR), #3 Randy Lewis (GRN), #5 Arnie David Girat (CUB), #7 Jadel Gregorio (BRA)
The Stats: Records, 2008 List, 2007 Worlds, 2004 Olympics
The Medal Picks: T&FN - Idowu, Évora, Wilson; SI - Idowu, Girat, Gregorio
The Story: This one is tough to handicap because the triple jump hasn’t been held much on the World Athletics Tour. World Indoor champ Idowu is undefeated and has the year’s best jump, so he looks to be the one to beat. After that it gets a little hazy. Lewis recently beat World Indoor bronze medalist Évora; Girat’s season highlight was silver at those same indoor championships but hasn’t been nearly as good since then. Note that world record holder Jonathan Edwards recently expressed the opinion that Évora has a better chance of someday breaking his record than Idowu.
Don’t expect much out of US Trials champ Wilson; he has four stress fractures.
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