At the height of her success, high jumper Blanka Vlasic had to relearn how to leap.
She taught herself using books and videos, which led to her being branded 'the mail order high jumper'.
He was a standout high-school high jumper and played basketball at a junior college nearby, in the late nineteen-eighties.
The world-famous high jumper Dick Fosbury, for instance, developed his revolutionary technique known as the Fosbury Flop in defiance of his coaches.
Gay could probably relate to high jumper Blanka Vlasic's feelings on Saturday.
Five of them are women: high jumper Amy Acuff, archer Khatuna Lorig, equestrian Karen O'Connor, shooter Kim Rhode and volleyball player Danielle Scott-Arruda.
But Bahrain's Olympic 1500m champion Rashid Ramzi was beaten into second in the 1500m, and Belgian high jumper Tia Hellebaut crashed out at 1.85m.
High jumper Adrian O'Dwyer will continue his search for the Olympic standard of 2.30 which is .02 beyond the Irish record which he achieved indoors earlier this year.
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In the 1968 Games, in Mexico City, the American high jumper Dick Fosbury won the gold medal by flipping himself over the bar head first and backward a technique now known as the Fosbury Flop.
He set an Olympic record, which made it a lot easier for people to forget that his leap looked like something out of the Ministry of Silly Jumps, and now every high jumper does it.
Welsh high jumper Julie Crane, who won silver at the 2006 Commonwealths, won the Welsh championship with a jump of 1.75 metres - but the that is almost 20 centimetres less than British number one Jessica Ennis' season's best.
His flight outfit of high boots and jodhpurs and a lightweight jumper worn over a shirt and tie was a replica of the one in which he'd crossed the Atlantic, and he spoke without removing his leather headgear or flight goggles, which were pushed up onto his forehead exactly as Sandy had them positioned in the charcoal drawing hidden beneath his bed.
Mr Whittaker said yellow fibres consistent with such high visibility clothing had been found on both the jumper in the bin and Ms Dries-Jenkins' cardigan.
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It was a game for fans who appreciate high-octane offense, and a pull-up jumper by Westbrook extended the Thunder's lead to 10 points late in the fourth.
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