He was a standout high-school high jumper and played basketball at a junior college nearby, in the late nineteen-eighties.

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It was a game for fans who appreciate high-octane offense, and a pull-up jumper by Westbrook extended the Thunder's lead to 10 points late in the fourth.

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His flight outfit of high boots and jodhpurs and a lightweight jumper worn over a shirt and tie was a replica of the one in which he'd crossed the Atlantic, and he spoke without removing his leather headgear or flight goggles, which were pushed up onto his forehead exactly as Sandy had them positioned in the charcoal drawing hidden beneath his bed.

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Welsh high jumper Julie Crane, who won silver at the 2006 Commonwealths, won the Welsh championship with a jump of 1.75 metres - but the that is almost 20 centimetres less than British number one Jessica Ennis' season's best.

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