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Dick Fosbury, a unique high jumper best known for dramatically altering the style of his sport, has died at age 76. Fosbury revolutionized the high jump by flying over the bar backwards, a style that became known as the 'Fosbury Flop'.

He died Sunday of complications from lymphoma.


https://www.npr.org/2018/10/20...-dies-high-jump-flop


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