Rip Dick Fosbury Innovator and Olympic Champion
1 min readIs Dick Fosbury of Ketchum Idaho today He is a licensed engineer and surveyor In 1968 dick Fosbury is a junior at Oregon State University was one of the Three Americans on the high jump team An event that has been on the Olympic Program since the games began in 1896. In Mexico City Fosbury would introduce a New way of hijumping that would Revolutionize the sport and this would Forever be known as The Fosbury Flop Especially the history of high jumping Is is pretty interesting there have been Many different techniques Through the Ages from the original Olympic Games They used to have the standing high jump And actually in those days it was very Common that the jumpers would use the Old scissor technique where you do a Scissor kick and hurdle your body over The bar with the Flop technique the Jumper runs up with a
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