A view of Athletics, number 4: Paris 1924 recalled-Charley Paddock’s leap of faith

Paris 1924 recalled – Charley Paddock’s leap of faith.   It was easy with the high jump. Dick Fosbury invented the Fosbury Flop and won the 1968 Olympic title, clearing the bar backward – or, as any other high jumper of that era would have said, the wrong way round. But then, perhaps not any […]