The man who broke an "Impossible" record died
27The 7ft record was seen as near impossible with the techniques and technology of the day and Charlie Dumas’ record was set before introduction of foam and rubber mats and the subsequent advent of the Fosbury Flop jump style (where the athlete jumps over the bar backwards) which is the most common today and without mats would otherwise have led to often serious injury.
Dick Fosbury who perfected the style and used it with great success at the 1968 games compressed a couple of vertebrae while competing in an era where many but not all grounds had switched from sand pits (or even wood chips) to foam.
The technique gained the name the "Fosbury Flop" when in 1964 the Medford Mail-Tribune ran a photo captioned "Fosbury Flops Over Bar," while in an accompanying article a reporter wrote that he looked like "a fish flopping in a boat."[4] Others were even less kind, with one newspaper captioning Fosbury's photograph, "World's Laziest High Jumper".
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