Dick Fosbury couldn't clear the bar in high school, so he tried a new technique. Five years later, in the 1968 Olympics, he won gold and set an Olympic record.

Dick Fosbury, the lanky leaper who revamped the technical discipline of high jump and won an Olympic gold medal with his “Fosbury Flop,” has died. He was 76. Fosbury died Sunday after a ...

Dick Fosbury, the lanky leaper who revamped the technical discipline of high jump and won an Olympic gold medal with his "Fosbury Flop," has died. He was 76.Fosbury died Sunday after a recurrence ...

By the next Olympics, 28 of the 40 jumpers were using the technique. The 1976 Olympics became the final Games where an athlete would win with a technique other than the "Fosbury Flop." ...

Fosbury set an Olympics record in the 1968 Games in Mexico City where he cleared a bar set at 2.24 meters with his “Fosbury Flop,” which was described at the time as “unorthodox but ...

The Fosbury Flop is now the go-to for most modern high jumpers and the only technique you'll see at the Summer Games. The last Olympics in which a high jumper won a medal using a technique other ...

Dick Fosbury, the lanky leaper who revamped the technical discipline of high jump and won an Olympic gold medal with his "Fosbury Flop," has died. He was 76.Fosbury died Sunday after a recurrence ...

Dick Fosbury, the lanky leaper who revamped the technical discipline of high jump and won an Olympic gold medal with his "Fosbury Flop," has died. He was 76.Fosbury died Sunday after a recurrence ...

Dick Fosbury, the lanky leaper who revamped the technical discipline of high jump and won an Olympic gold medal with his "Fosbury Flop," has died. He was 76.Fosbury died Sunday after a recurrence ...