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At the 1924 Olympics, Maine's Bob Legendre leaped into history

At the 1924 Olympics, Maine's Bob Legendre leaped into history
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At 1924 Olympics, Lewiston's Bob Legendre leaped into history

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Robert Legendre, shown in 1919, was a star athlete at Georgetown University whose track and field career began in his native Lewiston, Maine.
National Photo Co. Collection at the Library of Congress
On the first day of competition at the Olympics in 1924, Lewiston native Bob Legendre took his spot behind a chalked line on the field of the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Paris.
He wore boxy white shorts and a T-shirt with number 246 written across it.
Two years after graduating from Georgetown University, Legendre looked down the cinder track to the spot 40 meters away where he would leap as far as possible into the sand beyond. ....

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