Dick Fosbury

The Fosbury Flop wins gold at Mexico City 1968 Dick Fosbury cleared the bar head first and backward while everyone else was still rolling over it face down, and he won the high jump with it. His technique completely revolutionized the event, and he is remembered more for the style than for the medal. That is the reason to show it: watch the rest of the field and then Fosbury, and you are looking at the moment a whole event changed shape. Four years later, at Munich, 28 of the 40 high jumpers were using his technique.