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Paris Olympics: Inside Shelby McEwen's decision to go to jump-off rather than sharing high jump gold

SAINT-DENIS, France — At the end of Saturday’s epic two-plus-hour men’s high jump competition, the two competitors who were tied for first place faced a life-altering decision. Did they want to share ...
NBC Sports

Dick Fosbury, Olympic champion who revolutionized high jump, dies at 76

Dick Fosbury, who won the 1968 Olympic high jump title using a new, back-first high jump technique known as the Fosbury Flop, died Sunday morning at age 76. Fosbury died peacefully after a short bout ...
Business Insider

The first American to compete in the high jump and long jump in 100 years began doing both events as a way to keep himself occupied

JuVaughn Harrison is set to make history at Tokyo 2020, becoming the first American man since Jim Thorpe in 1912 to compete in both the high jump and the long jump. Harrison should be a contender in ...
Sports Illustrated

Watch: 5'7", 17-year-old South African clears high jump over seven feet

17-year-old Breyton Poole is just 5'7" but wowed a packed stadium over the weekend as he cleared a 2.24-meter (7' 4¼") high jump mark at the IAAF U18 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya. Germany's Chima ...
CNET

High jump event at the Tokyo Olympics ends with unprecedented shared gold

Sport can be savage. Sport can be brutal. But sometimes sport also throws up moments that reinvigorate your faith in humanity. On Sunday the high jump event at the Tokyo Olympics provided a moment ...
Los Angeles Times

For high jumper Sean Lee, the sky’s the limit

For those who live in Rancho Santa Margarita and used to encounter the strange sight of a high-jump pit sitting in the frontyard of the Lee family home and a 7-year-old boy trying to clear 2 feet, 10 ...