Fosbury Flop Fosbury Flop The Fosbury Flop is a style used in the athletics event of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention. Over the next few years, the flop became the dominant style of the event and remains so today. Before Fosbury, most elite jumpers used the straddle technique, Western Roll, Eastern cut-off or even scissors jump to clear the bar. Given that landing surfaces had previously been sandpits or low piles of matting, high jumpers of earlier years had to land
Major sports event hosting in Britain during the 2010s had been awarded the 2017 Test Championship, was given hosting rights for the 2017 Champions Trophy as compensation. On 19 December 2012, London was announced as host of the 2017 edition of the event then known as the IPC Athletics World Championships, using the Olympic Stadium built for the 2012 Olympic Games. By the time of the event, the International Paralympic Committee, which serves as the governing body for disability athletics, had renamed the competition as the World Para Athletics Championships. The event was spectacularly successful by the standards of previous editions of these championships. In all, 305,000 tickets were