The Independent - London, June 23rd, 1999
JOAO CARLOS de Oliveira, "Joao do Pulo", or "Jumping Joao", was one of the greatest athletes in South American track and field history. He belonged to a Brazilian dynasty of triple jumpers that included the twice Olympic champion Adhemar Ferreira da Silva, and the double Olympic medallist Nelson Prudencio, de Oliveira's mentor in his early years.
Like Prudencio, de Oliveira was never Olympic champion, but the world record he set at the 1975 Pan American Games in Mexico City stood for nearly 10 years, and only some highly contentious officiating in Moscow in 1980 deprived him of the Olympic go...
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