EDWARDS STILL IN AWE OF HIS RECORD FEAT

JONATHAN EDWARDS will never tire of being called a world-record holder.

- By Alan Smith

But 30 years on from his greatest hop, skip and jump in Gothenburg, he no longer watches the latest generation of pretenders between his fingers.

With a “quantum leap” in shoe technology that has seen records tumble across track and field, Edwards has made peace with the fact his mark will eventually be beaten.

Despite that, heading towards next month’s World Championships in Tokyo, there seems little chance of the only global athletics record still in British hands being broken.

Edwards, right, now 59, said: “It’s an amazing thing, I still have to pinch myself.

“I’ll still be out walking with my wife and go, I’ve jumped further than anyone else in the world'.

“It’s just an amazing feeling and I never get tired of it. But if you go back 10 years I’d have been really nervous.”