Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

High Jumper Dick Fosbury’s Biggest Win Was Also A Flop

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Today in 1968, a high jumper from Oregon, Dick Fosbury, changed his sport forever by winning gold with an unusual jumping motion now known as the Fosbury Flop. Plus: today in 2018, passengers on a bus in Paris refused to make room for a rider using a wheelchair. So the bus driver made room.  Dick Fosbury flops to an Olympic high jump record (History.com) Paris bus driver hailed a hero for kicking off ALL passengers after they refused to make room for wheelchair user (Evening Standard) Our Patreon backers are both champions and heroes  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support