At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Dick Fosbury won the gold medal in the men's high jump.

He did it by jumping an Olympic record 2.24 meters or 7 feet 4 inches.

What was remarkable about his accomplishment wasn't the height he jumped, but how he did it.

He didn't just win a gold medal.

He revolutionized the sport of high jumping.

Learn more about the innovator of the Fosbury Flop on this episode of Everything Everywhere

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High jumping is a very simple sport.

High jumping is a very simple sport.

There's a bar and you must jump over it without knocking the bar down.

And that's pretty much it. For something so simple, it's surprising that there's been so much innovation.

Over time there have been several styles and techniques used in the high jump.

The scissor jump, the straddle jump, the western roll in the eastern cutoff,

were all different variations of how competitors

managed to leap over the bar. Most of them were like a glorified leap or hurdle

over the bar. If you go and watch a YouTube video showing any of the

previously mentioned techniques, it probably looks very different

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