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    The Fosbury flop is a jumping style used in the track and field sport of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose...
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    revolutionizing the high jump event with a "back-first" technique now known as the Fosbury flop. His method was to sprint diagonally towards the bar, then curve and...
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    the current form, and the current universally preferred method is the Fosbury Flop, in which athletes run towards the bar and leap head first with their...
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  • intentional fall sometimes called flop in the US Diving (ice hockey) Flop shot, in golf Fosbury Flop, in high jump Flop (poker), a poker term describing...
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    development of the Fosbury Flop. It is a successor of the Western roll, for which it is sometimes confused. Unlike the scissors or flop style of jump, where...
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  • Fosbury (1947–2023), American athlete Fosbury Flop, a style of high jump named after Dick Fosbury Robert Fosbury, British astronomer This disambiguation...
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  • delivered a uranage onto the announce table. Strickland performed a Fosbury Flop, but Joe responded with a powerslam onto the concrete. Joe performed...
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    Fosbury Flop jumper to set a world record. The namesake of the technique, Dick Fosbury impressed the world by winning the 1968 Olympics with the flop...
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  • 1976, and won silver in 1980. Dick Fosbury won the gold medal in the high jump using his unconventional Fosbury flop technique, which quickly became the...
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  • running both on the track and on the roads. Dick Fosbury was the first to do what is now called the Fosbury flop to the high jump. He learned to take advantage...
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