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Chicago Sun-Times
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EDDIE PELLS | Associated Press

Dick Fosbury dies at 76; high-jumper known for ‘Fosbury Flop’

Dick Fosbury clears the bar in the high jump competition at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, where he won the gold medal with his Fosbury Flop. The move is used by business leaders as a study in innovation, taking chances and breaking molds. (AP Photos)

Dick Fosbury, the lanky leaper who revamped the technical discipline of high jump and won an Olympic gold medal with his “Fosbury Flop,” has died. He was 76.

Fosbury died Sunday after a recurrence with lymphoma, according to his publicist, Ray Schulte.

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