Prior to the 1968 Mexico Olympics high jumpers would cross the bar with their body parallel to it, in a technique called the Western Roll.
An unknown athlete by the name of Dick Fosbury was to change the face of high jumping forever by doing the opposite and flipping backwards over the bar:
An unknown athlete by the name of Dick Fosbury was to change the face of high jumping forever by doing the opposite and flipping backwards over the bar:
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