The UW initially pressed his case with a long-ago letter to United States Track and Field (USTAF). This is a man who has never been afraid to take on anyone in a position of power if he felt things were unjust. After being put on the FBI watch list and jailed briefly for an alleged but never proven connection to the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical group. After becoming anti-war, anti-nuclear, anti-racism, anti-tobacco, pro-Soviet, pro-Chinese and pro-Contra. He challenged this track decision after turning himself into an activist and labeled a subversive. While turning himself into an Olympic athlete, an acupuncturist, a scientific writer, the founder of Athletes for Peace, a middle-aged man and a senior citizen. He did this while becoming a doctor specializing in Chinese medicines and moving to New York City. He fought every athletic governing body he could to make this happen as the world continually changed around him for decades.
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Shinnick wanted full credit for what he did in Modesto. Yet this stubborn, competitive man never once accepted that faulty decision. "The very worst and best thing happened to me in the same day," he said.
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Incredibly, officials at this prestigious track event didn't use a wind gauge to certify Shinnick's performance instead they monitored a junior-college hurdles championship held simultaneously with the only one they had. When 27 came out, I almost fell over backwards." I saw 25 feet, then 26, and I began to feel giddy. I stood by the pit while they reeled out the steel tape. "I knew I had a good jump," Shinnick recalled in a memoir he's not published yet. In all, five world records were set during this singular Modesto competition. Shinnick, who was 20, felt stunned and elated over what he'd done, doubly so when Husky pole vaulter and close friend Brian Sternberg came up with his own world record of 16 feet and 7 inches in the same California meet less than an hour later. In 1963, this then University of Washington track man from Spokane, Washington, soared 27 feet and 4 inches (8.33 meters) with the perfect long jump at the Modesto Relays - three-quarters of an inch longer than the world-record holder Igor Ter-Ovanesyan from Russia and two feet longer than his personal best.
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Sharing the moment, these two men were the global best in their sporting specialties at one point in time and supposedly no one could ever take that away from them. Powell welcomed Shinnick into a coveted and exclusive athletic fraternity.