What is the name of the Olympic Gold star winner in the high jump who invented the flop?

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Dick Fosbury, high jump gold medal winner at the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, is credited with having invented the form of high jumping called the flop and was originally known as the Fosbury Flop.

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