When Dick Fosbury won the 1968 Olympic gold medal in the high jump, he did so by jumping all wrong. Instead of slicing his legs through the air to get over the crossbar without knocking it over, he ...

Dick Fosbury’s high jump gold medal from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics — which he won with the revolutionary Fosbury Flop — sold at auction for $158,600. The medal was one of a few Fosbury items ...

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 ...

Former Olympic athletes lit a commemorative cauldron Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Games in Mexico City, a symbol of a worldwide year of turbulent times. In a year of revolt and ...

48 year ago today - October 20, 1968 - Dick Fosbury revolutionised the High Jump forever with what is still known as the "Fosbury Flop". But can you imagine what if the "Fosbury Flop" happened today?

The country of Mexico has had a long history with the modern Olympic Games going back to Olympiad II in Paris in 1900. I choose to honor Mexico this week as I happen to be traveling through this ...

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