High Jumper Dick Fosbury’s Biggest Win Was Also A Flop

20/10/2021 3 min Temporada 3 Episodio 638

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Today in 1968, a high jumper from Oregon, Dick Fosbury, changed his sport forever by winning gold with an unusual jumping motion now known as the Fosbury Flop. Plus: today in 2018, passengers on a bus in Paris refused to make room for a rider using a wheelchair. So the bus driver made room. 
Dick Fosbury flops to an Olympic high jump record (History.com)
Paris bus driver hailed a hero for kicking off ALL passengers after they refused to make room for wheelchair user (Evening Standard)
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