The youtube footage of a secondary school athletics competition featuring two Kenyan high jumpers became a global sensation.
The video features the two finalists each clearing a height of over six feet. The winner finally won with a leap of 6 feet and two inches. In the footage you can see him leap well above the two student attendants. The athletes were bare-feet and with no landing mattress
The video was featured on several TV stations in the US and the UK including ESPN Sports enter which is the premier sports news program in the USA.
The video was widely discussed on various message boards. Commenters marveled at the athleticism and wondered what they could do had they been taught the Fosbury flop which is the proper technique.
