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Jumping more than my own height
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MORE than six decades ago this humble scribe had his own ambitions to win a medal in the Olympics.
I was about 12 when I won the Middlesex schools high jump championship. I was about five feet six-and-a-half inches (you can do your own metric conversion if you must) and I cleared the pole at five feet seven.
It was an impressive figure, and far higher than any other boy at the stadium that day.
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