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- Dick Fosbury was one
- of the worldΓÇÖs most
- successful flops. He was
- a high jumper who had his
- own way of crossing the
- high-jump bar -- via the ΓÇ£Fosbury Flop."
-
- Until Dick came along, most jumpers used
- a ΓÇ£scissors" or Western-style jump: rolling
- over the bar with their faces down. With the
- Flop, Dick ran in a curve toward the bar and
- threw himself over the bar head-first, with
- his face skyward. He then flopped onto the
- landing cushion on his back.
-
- Dick first worked on the Flop in high school,
- in Medford, Oregon, and later when he
- was a student at Oregon State
- University. When he flopped to an