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The Wizard of Foz - Dick Fosbury's One-Man High-Jump Revolution (Hardcover)
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The Wizard of Foz - Dick Fosbury's One-Man High-Jump Revolution (Hardcover)
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Track and Field Writers of America's Book of the Year! "Great read!
.... Evokes a time and place that many of us remember well, and
provides insight for those who came after. "-Tom Jordan, author of
Pre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve
Prefontaine In 1968, perhaps the finest US Olympic men's
track-and-field team ever stirred the world in unprecedented ways,
among them the victory stand black rights protest by Tommie Smith
and John Carlos in Mexico City. But in competition no single
athlete mirrored the free-thinking '60s better than Dick Fosbury, a
failed prep high jumper who invented an offbeat style that
ultimately won him a gold medal and revolutionized the event. No
jumpers today use any other style than his. Yet few know the
struggles Fosbury endured to achieve his success, as he and Bob
Welch recount in The Wizard of Foz. From the tragic death of a
younger brother to nearly dying himself, from flunking out of
college to nearly being drafted, Fosbury cleared far more obstacles
than a high-jump bar. And even when he had seemingly made the US
Olympic Team, he faced a "redo" that nobody saw coming. This book
tells a story of loss, survival, and triumph, twined in a person
(Fosbury), a time (the '60s), and a place (a fantasy-like Olympic
Trials venue high in the Sierra Nevada) clearly made for each
other. It is a story of a young man who refused to listen to those
who laughed at him, those who doubted him, and those who tried to
make him someone he was not.
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