Father of the main jump

On the 77th year of life Richard Douglas Fosberi — the American athlete died. It was made, of course, a legend not by its only Olympic victory, and the way of execution of the high jump thought up by it, turned all ideas of equipment in this discipline. Richard Douglas Fosberi Photo: Lionel Cironneau / information agency "Associated Press" Among heroes of the Olympic Games to Mexico, taken place in 1968, were two American athletes with strange destiny. Both, except those Olympic Games, by and large did not win anything prestigious. Both thus managed thanks to the only success to find...