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Mexico City 1968. Dick Fosbury, high jump © André Lecoq/L'Équipe 20 October 1968. There was the scissors jump, the chest jump, the belly jump... and from the day Dick Fosbury became Olympic high jump champion, there was the fosbury. The American, gifted in maths and a future engineer, had been perfecting a new technique since 1963 to raise his tall frame above 1.62m. He raised his hips vertically, pulled back his shoulders, and lay down on the bar... He won the Olympic competition with 2.24m, under the "ole" of the public who did not even notice that the marathoners were entering the stadium. In fifteen years, Fosbury became a common name and remains, even today, the best way to jump. Single posterior print. Edition 1/1. Black and white piezographic print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin 300g paper. Flamant art frame. 15 X 20 cm each photo, 35 X 100 cm the complete quadriptych
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Mexico City 1968. Dick Fosbury, high jump © André Lecoq/L'Équipe 20 October 1968. There was the scissors jump, the chest jump, the belly jump... and from the day Dick Fosbury became Olympic high jump champion, there was the fosbury. The American, gifted in maths and a future engineer, had been perfecting a new technique since 1963 to raise his tall frame above 1.62m. He raised his hips vertically, pulled back his shoulders, and lay down on the bar... He won the Olympic competition with 2.24m, under the "ole" of the public who did not even notice that the marathoners were entering the stadium. In fifteen years, Fosbury became a common name and remains, even today, the best way to jump. Single posterior print. Edition 1/1. Black and white piezographic print on Hahnemühle FineArt Baryta Satin 300g paper. Flamant art frame. 15 X 20 cm each photo, 35 X 100 cm the complete quadriptych
