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Germany’s Markus Rehm has left it open whether he will seek a fifth straight Paralympics long jump gold 2028 in Los Angeles but he is not finished yet in the sport where he still dreams of leaping beyond nine metres. Rehm, 36, holds the world record with 8.72 metres, while 8.13m were good enough for him on Wednesday in Paris to get a fourth gold in the discipline and fifth overall at the Paralympics. “I am still hungry and I believe that more is possible,” said Rehm, who had his right leg amputated below the knee in 2003 after a wakeboard accident and competes with a carbon-fibre blade shaped …

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