"Consider … the Fosbury Flop, an upside-down and backward leap over a high bar, an outright—an outrageous!—perversion of acceptable methods of jumping over ...

NOTE: The following story ran as part of the "Spartan Spirit" column in the Thursday, Feb. 1, 1968, edition of the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Indoor track and field fans at such gathering places as ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — During the Olympics, you'll see athletes launch themselves over the high jump bar all using the same technique: the Fosbury Flop. But before it became the gold standard for high ...

PARIS, France — The high jump, an event part of the track and field, competition, requires athletes to jump and clear a horizontal bar placed at a certain height without dislodging it. Athletes must ...

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 ...

The Chinese read backwards, and it doesn’t seem to hurt their eyes. The Czechs make movies backwards, and do all right at the box office. So why shouldn’t an American named Dick Fosbury win gold and ...