How One Man Changed the High Jump Forever


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How One Man Changed the High Jump Forever
Published May 30, 2018

During the 1968 Olympics, Dick Fosbury introduced a new way of high jumping. Using his "Fosbury Flop" he was the first person to use the now so common backward jump over the bar.

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