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 ...

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 ...

Competing in front of 80,000 spectators at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Oregon State University’s Dick Fosbury put on a spectacular performance in the high jump. • In 1964, a photo of Dick Fosbury’s ...

Dick Fosbury changed the course of high jumping with the "Fosbury Flop" but Bob Welch's "The Wizard of Foz" reveals there was more to the story than sport. Oregon State University athlete Dick Fosbury ...

A ski jumper flashes a V. Photo courtesy of Flickr user tpower1978. Hard to believe, but it’s been almost 50 years since a 21-year-old college student named Dick Fosbury created a sensation at the ...