13 March 2023 at 19:35 Dick Fosbury is dead – the man who turned high jump upside down The man who revolutionized high jump, American Dick Fosbury, is dead. This is reported by AFP, which quotes Fosbury’s agent. He lived to be 76 years old. Fosbury introduced what later became known as the “Fosbury flop”, which consists of jumping backwards over the bar, thereby increasing the force of movement upwards with the help of centrifugal force. But it was to be anything but a flop. Despite great skepticism at the start, the new technique quickly gained popularity, and is today, so to speak, dominant among today’s high jumpers.
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