Dick Fosbury

From Plastic Tub

Born 1947

American track-and-field athlete, who won the gold medal in the high jump event at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. At the 1968 games Fosbury revolutionized the sport of high jumping with a new technique, which became known as the Fosbury Flop. Instead of leaping facing the bar and swinging first one leg and then the other over the bar in a scissoring motion—the dominant method of the time—Fosbury turned just as he leapt, flinging his body backward over the bar with his back arched, following with his legs and landing on his shoulders.

Fosbury is known to have made several guest appearances as a "sauce expert" at Incidentalist Dead Flesh Bonanzas.


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