sentence: A man at a professional sports event performs a long jump over a pit of sand in front of a stadium filled with people. sentence:   The man begins by encouraging the audience to clap by throwing his hands up at the crowd and gesturing for applause. sentence:   The man then kneels slightly to prepare for the run and begins to run down a stretch of narrow lane before catapulting in the air over the sandpit. sentence:   The man lands on the other side of the pit and gestures to the audience again for applause as men smooth sand over with long handled and wide brush brooms, the audience claps and waves flags and camera people rush around the event capturing it on film.