There are images of the sport that have become history, and the footage of Dick Fosbury jumping backwards at the Mexico-68 Olympic Games is one of them. The man who revolutionized the high jump He died on Sunday due to a relapse of lymphoma, which he had been suffering from for some time, as his representative explained. He had just turned 76 on the 8th.
Fosbury, a young man from Portland, Oregon, He stunned the world when, at the age of 21, he became Olympic champion with his eponymous Fosbury flop in the Olympic final. She surprised him with the way he looked at the bar and his 2.24 rating, which set a new Olympic record. At the Black Power Olympics, sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith raise their fists on the podium in a black glove, and Bob Beamon’s phenomenal 8.90 jump, a lanky young blonde man, also made his mark in Olympic history.
Even then the technique it would be a revolution. It was a radical transformation that became the dominant style, surpassing ventral cylinder history with names as distinguished as the Soviet Valery Brummel.
But Fosbury had a short-lived athletic career.. He finished after failing to participate in the trials, which were the United States selection tests for the Munich-72 Games. He then continued his university education and graduated from the civil engineering department.