Dick Fosbury, known for changing the sport of high jump, has died at the age of 76, his publicist said. He was known for the 'Fosbury Flop.'
FILE - Gold medal winner Dick Fosbury raises his arm on the victor's podium of the Olympic stadium, Oct. 20, 1968, in Mexico City.
Fosbury started to dabble with the technique as a high school athlete in Oregon. He took off at an angle, leaped backward, bent himself into a"J" shape to catapult himself over the bar and crash into the landing pit. "I knew I had to change my body position, and that’s what started first the revolution, and over the next two years, the evolution," Fosbury told The Corvallis Gazette-Times in 2014."During my junior year, I carried on with this new technique, and each meet I continued to evolve or change, but I was improving. My results were getting better."
Fosbury’s technique was initially panned as he was described as a fish flopping in a boat. But he liked the name"Fosbury Flop."FILE - Dick Fosbury, of the United States, clears the bar in the high jump competition at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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