Comments on: Dick Fosbury: Former Olympic high jumper

By: Charlotte:)

Charlotte:) — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:42:03 +0000

I LOVE high jumping(L)…and long distance running:).
At my school i hold the record for girls years 7-9 high jumping. I had never done it before, but i entered myself as i had to do something for the athletics day at school. So i was really nervous as i thought i would fail straight away, but i found that i was actually not so bad! It was my first time ever when i smashed the record by 11cm. Considering i did this with a scissor kick, i cleared a (rather high to me!:P) 1.31. I was so proud of myself. I also finished third in a selected 1500m race. So, now i am very into my athletics, and i don’t know where i’d be without it now!
I’m also a MASSIVE netball fan. I can play almost any position, and also went on a sports trip and was apart of the team:).

Some of my aceivements:).
Hopefully i’ll be beating Stefka;)x

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Dick Fosbury at the 2008 Simplot Games | SpeedEndurance.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:01:09 +0000

[...] neck, in a Flop. Here are 2 older articles on Dick Fosbury. The first one is an interview from ESPN Sportzone on February, 1998. The second one is Fosbury Flop back in the news 39 years later in October 2007. [...]

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The 2010 Mexico mini-Olympics Summer Games | SpeedEndurance.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:29:09 +0000

[...] early next year. Mexico City previously held the Summer Olympics in 1968… an event that made Dick Fosbury, Bob Beamon, Al Oerter, and Tommie Smith household names. 1906 Interim Summer Olympics Could this [...]

By: Jimson Lee

Jimson Lee — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:33:53 +0000

@Sam – I never went to the Olympics as an athlete, but I did as a spectator. Hopefully, I will be going as a coach one day.

I’ll probably be a “Host” with all my friends coming in town for 2010 in Vancouver.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:20:47 +0000

how many times did you go to the olympics and would you consider yourself an extremnist and why thank you very much

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Fosbury Flop back in the news 39 years later | Speedendurance.com — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:37:13 +0000

[...] June, I posted an Interview of Dick Fosbury from ESPN [...]

By: Jimmie R. Markham

Jimmie R. Markham — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:32:42 +0000

I specifically remember tuning into track meets on TV during the late 70s and early 80s in the hopes of catching even a glimpse of Debbie Brill. Those were the days when so many women in athletics were not particularly pretty. Her grace and beauty far surpassed that of those Soviet-Block testosterone-pumped women with hairy armpits. That made quite an impression on a young adolescent boy who was just beginning to differentiate females from males.