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n. - United States athlete who revolutionized the high jump by introducing a type of flop in the 1968 Olympics (born in 1947).

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  • Doing the Fosbury Flop onto sawdust six or seven feet down would be a method you might try once, maybe twice.
  • You can have a miler and a sprinter, a Fosbury and a Jonathan Edwards, or, gasp, even a football player and a dancer.
  • He'd won gold in Mexico City with his revolutionary "Fosbury flop," turning the straddle technique on its head by going over the bar head and shoulders first.
  • In the couple of decades that I have been following Melanie's copy she has cleared every fence she encountered by a perfect Fosbury flop - with a foot to spare each time.
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