The New York Times: This Day In Sports
In 1967: No gold medal, or any medal, winner in the high jump has ever used that silly technique. Therefore it must be wrong.In high school, despite the dire warnings of every coach who watched him, he invented the "Fosbury Flop" and reached 6‚7. And today in Mexico City he amazed 80,000 persons by clearing 7 feet 41/4 inches for an Olympic record.