Straddle technique straight, and head and trunk pass the bar at the same time. Charles Dumas, the first high jumper to clear 7 ft, and John Thomas (silver medal at the 1964 Olympics) used this technique. Valeriy Brumel (gold in 1964) dove a little bit, his head going over the bar before his trunk. Probably the most extreme exponent of the dive straddle was Bob Avant, who cleared 7 ft. in 1961. Avant's technique was close to a pure dive, with just a small knee lift on his lead leg. The last world record jump with the straddle technique was Vladimir Yashchenko's
Major sports event hosting in Britain during the 2010s as The O2 Arena and SouthBank Centre. The Games were awarded to Paris. Following the success of the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships, UK Athletics announced that it would submit a bid to host the event again in 2019. London was competing against Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for hosting rights, with a bidding deadline of 30 September 2017. However, the day before the bidding deadline, London abandoned the 2019 bid, citing scheduling issues and a lack of funding to support the bid. With Kuala Lumpur also pulling out, bidding was reopened, and the event was ultimately awarded to Dubai, United Arab