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 ...

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 ...

Olympic gold medalist Dick Fosbury, creator of the universal high jump technique the "Fosbury Flop," will light the torch during the opening ceremonies of the 30th Annual Big Sky State Games at Daylis ...

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?

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 ...