Olympic gold medalist Dick Fosbury, creator of the universal high jump technique the "Fosbury Flop," will light the torch during the opening ceremonies of the 30th Annual Big Sky State Games at Daylis ...

Dick Fosbury's high jump gold medal from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics — which he won with the revolutionary Fosbury Flop — sold at auction for $158,600. The medal was one of a few Fosbury items ...

Dick Fosbury, the lanky leaper who revamped the technical discipline of high jump and won an Olympic gold medal with his "Fosbury Flop," has died. He was 76. Fosbury died Sunday after a recurrence ...

NOTE: The following story ran as part of the "Spartan Spirit" column in the Thursday, Feb. 1, 1968, edition of the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Indoor track and field fans at such gathering places as ...

Fosbury stunned the sports world with a backwards flop over the high jump bar at the Mexican Olympics in 1968. He won gold, and invented a new... High jumper Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized the sport ...