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Thacker: 'Can we go 400 feet?!'

By Tim Mutrie

Monday, March 30, 2009

Paul Thacker was in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport this morning preparing to board a plane for Chicago. Thacker was in particularly good spirits too—clearly, he's still riding high from his new world record distance jump of 301.5 feet in Brainerd, Minn., Thursday. Though mighty pleased with his latest world record huck, Thacker—we had to ask—says he's not finished with this distance jumping stuff either. "Absolutely not," he said via cell phone. "We were still on the landing a ...

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