I did the triple jump in high school and it's one of the dumbest track events. I can't think of many real life scenarios where I will need to jump off of one foot twice in a row, then the other foot, and hopefully clear a large distance...
Apparently the story is ancient Olympians were said to jump 15 meters, which is impossible so they figured it was actually three jumps so made that an official sport.
They should just jump once and be done with it, such attention whores amiright?
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