fosbury in A Sentence
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The Fosbury Flop.
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Carruthers failed in all three tries, winning Fosbury the gold.
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However, Fosbury was allowed to continue using his own technique at competitions.
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When Fosbury developed this innovative backwards, headfirst leap, it was quite by accident.
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The bar was then set to 2.24 meters, a height Fosbury cleared, setting a new Olympic record.
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In later interviews, Fosbury provided a more candid and accurate account of the Flop's development, revealing that it actually unfolded over many years and involved countless trials and errors.
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The next time that I was interviewed, that's when I said,‘Well, at home in my town in Medford, Oregon, they call it the Fosbury Flop'- and everyone wrote it down.
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With neither of these methods working terribly well for him, Fosbury began experimenting with different jumping techniques, achieving greater heights than he could with the standard methods of the day.
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While American high jumpers at the Olympics used the technique to earn themselves silver and gold medals, Fosbury could not coordinate his limbs and body just right to make it over the jump at any great height.
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If you're wondering why this method had not been long since discovered by other jumpers, going over the bar headfirst and backwards meant that Fosbury would be landing on his back, something that would not have been possible before his junior year.
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(Note: high jumpers did not yet use the now ubiquitous Fosbury Flop which, while a superior jumping method due to not needing one's center of gravity to ever go above the bar to clear it, would have been highly dangerous to do on such a rolling ship.).
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Despite his success with the method, Fosbury's high school coach initially insisted he keep practicing the straddle technique, but stopped pestering him when he used the flop to break his high school's high jump record, clearing six feet, three inches(1.91 meters) and then shortly thereafter clearing six feet,
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The 1980 Olympics saw thirteen of its sixteen high jump finalists use it, and today, while other techniques can still be seen used by those warming up, when it comes to actual competition, some slight variation of the Fosbury Flop is the gold standard, and not a single person who's used a different technique in the high jump has held the world record since 1980.
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