Two years earlier, Dick Fosbury of Oregon State literally turned the sporting world upside down, by winning the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, with a world record flop of 7-4¼. Fosbury’s ...
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 ...
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?