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The long jump has given me so much in my life. It makes me smile even when life is difficult. No matter what difficulties and challenges I have faced in my life, long jump has kept me going.

— Luvo Manyonga

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Me trying to take another [drug] hit right now is death for me.

I felt like there was nothing left for me.

All I’m prepared to say, is that no record should last for ever. I fully realise that this record is going to be improved at some stage by a young talented athlete. And I will be happy for whoever does so because that is how it works in athletics.

Sport can give you a natural high so, when I wasn’t in sport, I would look for something that would give me that, Whenever I came back to South Africa, I wanted that feeling.

I couldn’t walk for a week, That’s when the penny dropped for me. I saw my life flash in front of me when those guys were beating me.

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