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I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see.'

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— Dick Fosbury   (1947 - 2023)

American retired high jumper, Who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico games after inventing a revolutionary high-jump technique