At a pre-Olympic competition in California, Boston jumped 26 feet and 11.25 inches to beat Owens' record by three inches. He says a conversation the night before had motivated him. Boston said: "The world was aware of what had happened with John Carlos and Tommie Smith and Peter Norman. So Bob and I just kind of thought about it. My protest was barefoot. We were protesting the same thing. "And he gave me his full name. He says: 'My name is Cassius Marcellus Clay.' And of course later on he became Muhammad Ali. But he gave me the full name and we were friends until he passed. And we were together at the Atlanta Olympics where he's lighting the torch" "You can look at Catalans teams of old and they have probably not had that away-game consistency in the past, but it's obviously something they have knuckled down on this year and sorted that side.