What an innovator Dick Fosbury is. It was brave of him to change the traditional high jump techniques of that era, to his totally radical style. He definitely moved high jump forward. He deserves all his plaudits within the sport.
A lot had to do with the change of the landing surface. I'm not taking anything away from what Fosbury accomplished and pushing the sport to new heights, but one has to think that if the landing surface were still sand pits or the low piles of mats that were previously used he would be reluctant to give himself up like that. But who knows? lol. Maybe he was a nut and would have just back splashed into the sand.
@@NJ187 That's what he did. He'd been doing that technique since he was 16. Flopping around on small mats. This is why no one wanted to try his technique. They were scared of injury.
There's nothing natural about this technique. You have to force your body to employ it. When I dabbled in athletics in my youth I never could master it; got my best heights with the old straddle, which came quite natural to me. I must commend Fosbury to have perfected this technique until it could yield its full potential.
I have nothing but the utmost respect for Dick Fosbury. This is his legacy, changing high jump forever. Straddle!? What's that!!? This is probably where the term "setting the bar higher" came from. Top man.
His jumping style was amazing. Jumpers today covered more horizontal distance in their jump, requiring more mattress. He, on the other hand, just goes up and straight down again. It looks so weird
The way he pours himself over the bar flexing his body at each point with the final kick of the feet to clear the heels Over the Bar by a hair's breadth... Perfection, but nobody needs me to tell them that
To answer another poster: no, his winning height, 2.24, was not a world record, though I believe it was an Olympic and US record. The word record-holder at the time was Valery Brumel (sp?). Whose WR was 2.28. Fosbury made three attempts at 2.29 but missed on each attempt.
I saw this live on tv in Ohio. It was incredible to see a sport turn on its head. The strange looking flop. I love this moment in athletics and my my life. Thanks Dick Fosbury.
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Talk about thinking outside the box. Dick Fosbury came up with an entirely new method, endured extreme ridicule within the sport, had the power of his own convictions, wins Gold, and ended up changing the sport forever. Definition of absolute Genius.
Agree. It was an idea of the Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana). In 1988, the Italian television RAI broadcast for a whole month, during the summer, every evening, several clips of the year 1968, to celebrate that famous year as historical turning point. Clips on the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations in Paris, the Olympics in Mexico City, sexual revolution, etc. This is an original clip from the '68 Olympics RAI Archives without the old overdub comments of the Italian RAI speakers. Instead of comments, RAI decided to put Brian Eno's music. I am Italian, and I saw this live broadcast on TV in 1988
Gigi Buffon's mother used to tell us this story at school. She was a PE teacher and she had been an Olympic athlete for Italy at Mexico 68. At the Olympic Village everybody was talking about this guy, and then he won gold and everything changed.
@@hmoobmeeka That is not true. When Fosbury first started using this technique he was jumping into sawdust and plane shavings. There is video on TH-cam showing him doing it.
There was no reason why they should but nobody knew that at the time. The reason the flop is now dominant has to do with the fact that it is easier to learn and teach than the straddle. The straddle is still an extremely efficient technique and gives nothing away in that regard.
Amazing how he not only invented jumping that way, his form he invented was basically perfected and not altered since. That’s some pure engineering genius
What a magical Olympics. Being in the western hemisphere much of it was broadcast live on American television and the athletes broke many records. Though some credited the altitude of Mexico City many of of the records set remained for decades. Fosbury's "flop" is the standard of high jumpers today.
I saw a kid called Doyle perform the "flop" into sandpits in 1964 at the Liverpool Catholic Schools' Sports. He was 11. He went to St. Swithens School in Croxteth. His jump was eventually disqualified as he was landing in sand and was therefore dangerous. Fosbury's jump technique was the ruination of the event...
Dick Fosbury shows up looking like he's never been in a weight room. Drives out to the pyramids during the opening ceremony and sleeps in a van. Looks absolutely terrified before every jump. Then sets the Olympic record without touching the bar once with a completely new technique. He's a nerd hero. He won with physics.
It was the brainchild of the Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana). In 1988, RAI broadcast for an entire month during the summer, every night, several clips from 1968 to celebrate that famous year as a historical turning point. Clips about the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations in Paris, the Mexico City Olympics, the sexual revolution, etc., were shown, but with a new disclosure editing. This is an original RAI Archive clip of the '68 Olympics without the old overlay commentaries by Italian RAI speakers. Instead of the commentaries, RAI decided to put music by Brian Eno, which fits like a glove. I am Italian and saw this broadcast live on TV in 1988.
Legend. . . . In 1968, in Mexico, Dick Fosbury won Olympic gold by revolutionizing traditional high jump technique with a totally strange a "back-first" technique.
Brumel held the world record at 2.28 at the time of 68 with the normal Straddle technique already done in 1963. In 1971 another person broke that world record, again with just the straddle technique. 73 was the first year that a flop diver took the world record (Dwight jones), but in 1978 a straddle jumper again reclaimed the WR with 2.34. It has even been debated if the straddle technique is even better than the flop, but in the end many find it too hard to learn and master at a consistent level in competitions.
How the heck athletes jumped before Fosbury flop! Fosbury flop changed everything! I didnt know that. I jumped always in Fosbury flop. My personal record is 1.35 metres.
Before the straddle roll (used by the other two jumpers shown) there were a number of styles used. You should look at the high jump competition from the 1936 Olympics. You'll see the western roll, a modified western roll (comes close to the straddle roll) and the strangest style of all, the Eastern Cutoff (a scissors but with an adjustment made over the bar to lower the jumper's center of gravity)
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The chicken or the egg ? Due largely to the wider availability of foam rubber HJ landing pits (vs wood shavings), Dick Fosbury was able to safely starting using the "Fosbury Flop", the summer before his junior year Medford HS, OR (1963), Debbie Brill starting using her independently developed, "Brill Bend" around the age of 13 (@1966) in BC, Canada. However, there's no doubt that Fosbury's Olympic winning jump at Mexico City, was the "quantum leap" that changed high jumping forever. The "Fosbury Flop" made every other high jumping technique (roll, straddle) obsolete. By the 1972 Olympics in Munich, 28 out of 40 competitors in the men's HJ saw the dramatically increased potential of using the modification of the old "scissors" technique, the "flop". By 1976, virtually all men and women took up flopping and bending. Pax.
Fosbury is a legend...such a hard technique to use for jumping bcause every aspect of it has has to be precise...without the fosbury flop high jumping would be at a stand still competition wise...thanks dicks fosbury for helping me to clear 7'11/4" in high school in 1985 without great form
Actually others had jumped with their back to the bar around the same time and before (and independent of Fosbury), like Debbie Brill of Canada and a Montana newspaper from 1959 shows a high school kid named Bruce Quande clearing a bar with his back to it...but no doubt he popularized it and had the most early success with it which made it the preferred style of the last 40 years...
i still think this is one of the msot amazing innovative ideas in sport itself. It is actually almos the opposite of what our understandings in high jump were back then. Being a high jumper my self, it is quite amazing. I believe there never will be a technical change in the event as successful as dick's :)
The year was 1968 and their shoes were Adidas and Pumas. Did you know that they were brothers Adi Dassler = Adi das and his brother Rudi Dassler made Pumas.
Some awesome ambient music over the top of this. Added by uploader? Added by the TV channel? Or was the stadium treated to these random electronic bleeps?
Added by the TV channel. It was an idea of the Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana). In 1988, the Italian television RAI broadcast for a whole month, during the summer, every evening, several clips of the year 1968, to celebrate that famous year as historical turning point. Clips on the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations in Paris, the Olympics in Mexico City, sexual revolution, etc. This is an original clip from the '68 Olympics RAI Archives without the old overdub comments of the Italian RAI speakers. Instead of comments, RAI decided to put Brian Eno's music. I am Italian, and I saw this live broadcast on TV in 1988
2:30 - Doesn't it seem like there are way too many people walking around the jumper right before he jumps? I mean, would that type of distraction take place in the Olympics today?
What an innovator Dick Fosbury is. It was brave of him to change the traditional high jump techniques of that era, to his totally radical style. He definitely moved high jump forward. He deserves all his plaudits within the sport.
Actually, he moved high jump backward. ;)
A lot had to do with the change of the landing surface. I'm not taking anything away from what Fosbury accomplished and pushing the sport to new heights, but one has to think that if the landing surface were still sand pits or the low piles of mats that were previously used he would be reluctant to give himself up like that. But who knows? lol. Maybe he was a nut and would have just back splashed into the sand.
@@NJ187 That's what he did. He'd been doing that technique since he was 16. Flopping around on small mats. This is why no one wanted to try his technique. They were scared of injury.
@@NJ187 Fosbury started off doing this into sawdust and plane shavings. There is vision of it on TH-cam.
@@NJ187 jumping higher is jumping higher. Landing safely is secondary.
Doesn't the technique of the other jumpers look strange now? And to think at the time, it was Fosbury's technique that looked strange.
True!!
Yep. In fact, the last roll jumper that I heard of was an East German decathlete in 1988.
Think different would lead you to Disaster or innovation
There's nothing natural about this technique. You have to force your body to employ it. When I dabbled in athletics in my youth I never could master it; got my best heights with the old straddle, which came quite natural to me.
I must commend Fosbury to have perfected this technique until it could yield its full potential.
@@HotelPapa100 of course it isn't natural and that's the whole point
"Fosbury, what are you doing?"
Fosbury : "Changing this sport forever"
Imagine other dudes in the competition being like: “WHY NOBOBY TOLD US ABOUT THIS?”
did any of them go onto develop thier technique to this??
Yes @@matthewevansteush6461
@@matthewevansteush6461All of them
For God's sake, stop the ghetto talk
They knew. Everybody had heard about Fosbury before the Olympics.
I think this is the most beautiful moment in sports history.
NauticalStrings The greatest moment (IMO) was when Jesse Owen's smoked everybody at the '39 Berlin Olympics. In front of all those Nazis, priceless.
I didn't know that about FDR. Like, did Roosevelt know that jackleg was a Klansman before he appointed him?
@@blueburro9226 Berlin Olympics was in 36' you dipshit
@@crashdavis721 you're right, of course, the '36 Olympics. Thanks Crash for pointing out what a DIPSHIT you are. Thanks again.
I still vote for Bob Beamon shattering the Long Jump record. What an olympics. I was 11
i love the ambient noises it goes with this beautiful revolutionary moment
SERIOUSLY!
This technique was new back then... Nowadays every pro does this
RIP to the man, but the legend lives on forever..
I have nothing but the utmost respect for Dick Fosbury. This is his legacy, changing high jump forever. Straddle!? What's that!!? This is probably where the term "setting the bar higher" came from. Top man.
Fosbury is a badass, a legend!!
His jumping style was amazing. Jumpers today covered more horizontal distance in their jump, requiring more mattress. He, on the other hand, just goes up and straight down again. It looks so weird
@@RobbyBoy167 the technique was brand new back then
I would like to see the original ABC TV coverage of Fosbury's jumps complete with the original commentary.
Very few athletes in history, and perhaps none in our time, have changed their sports as fundamentally as Fosbury did.
Jan Boklöv, who invented the "V" flying position in ski jumping.
Gunde Svan who promoted the skating technique in skating.
Sotomayer only jumper over 8 feet is pretty cool.That is the same as jumping over a football goal crossbar...
TedEd brought me here.
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Hats off to Fosbury, he single-handedly revolutionized the high jump. Also the music is by Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon.
The way he pours himself over the bar flexing his body at each point with the final kick of the feet to clear the heels Over the Bar by a hair's breadth... Perfection, but nobody needs me to tell them that
Fosbury is an example where brain can win over brawn
İt is actually when a brawn with a brain win over brawn :D
M.C. TRASHBAG Racist.
T. P. ? Lol why
T. P. How is that racist you fucking idiot?
@@Lusion Go easy on TP. It's the only English word he knows.
Psychedelic music and no narrator....I like it!! Refreshing!
To answer another poster: no, his winning height, 2.24, was not a world record, though I believe it was an Olympic and US record. The word record-holder at the time was Valery Brumel (sp?). Whose WR was 2.28. Fosbury made three attempts at 2.29 but missed on each attempt.
Correct on all counts. Brumel's record stood until July of '71 when it was finally broken by American Pat Matzdorf.
anyway he changed all the history of this sport
When you realize they called the jump by his last name because you cant have the dick jump going on in the olympics
Orange Broom Things are normally named after people's surnames rather than first names anyway, except maybe with regards to monarchs.
@@OrangeBroom I think it would be called the Dick Flop technically.
2:43 When he actually runs
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I'm here cause of Ted ed. So cool and interesting.
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A man from a small Oregon place revolutionized the technique. Incredible.
I saw this live on tv in Ohio. It was incredible to see a sport turn on its head. The strange looking flop. I love this moment in athletics and my my life. Thanks Dick Fosbury.
How humble was Dick Fosbury in light of his complete rearrangement of the high-jump criteria. Good on him!
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LEGEND! He LITERALLY changed the game! 💪🏾😍
A world record is impressive, but innovation is much greater. 😎
Talk about thinking outside the box. Dick Fosbury came up with an entirely new method, endured extreme ridicule within the sport, had the power of his own convictions, wins Gold, and ended up changing the sport forever. Definition of absolute Genius.
The music choice is brilliant. It’s like getting into the minds of the jumpers.
Agree. It was an idea of the Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana).
In 1988, the Italian television RAI broadcast for a whole month, during the summer, every evening, several clips of the year 1968, to celebrate that famous year as historical turning point. Clips on the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations in Paris, the Olympics in Mexico City, sexual revolution, etc.
This is an original clip from the '68 Olympics RAI Archives without the old overdub comments of the Italian RAI speakers.
Instead of comments, RAI decided to put Brian Eno's music.
I am Italian, and I saw this live broadcast on TV in 1988
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RIP Dick Fosbury, Legendary High Jumper whom technique changed the way of high jumping.
Gigi Buffon's mother used to tell us this story at school. She was a PE teacher and she had been an Olympic athlete for Italy at Mexico 68. At the Olympic Village everybody was talking about this guy, and then he won gold and everything changed.
I met Ed Caruthers back in the 80s at a high school track meet, he was a great jumper, a fine teacher and very humble man.
He was my PE teacher back in the 90s.
I bet the other high jumpers were like, oh dang why didn't I think to do it like that.
They didnt do it like this because they use to land on sand or wood chips landing on your back on those could injure you
@@asdifikult the Olympics just changed to foam, but US colleges were already using foam and thats what led to fosbury using the flop technique
@@hmoobmeeka That is not true. When Fosbury first started using this technique he was jumping into sawdust and plane shavings. There is video on TH-cam showing him doing it.
There was no reason why they should but nobody knew that at the time. The reason the flop is now dominant has to do with the fact that it is easier to learn and teach than the straddle. The straddle is still an extremely efficient technique and gives nothing away in that regard.
@@thethirdman225 Not as efficient as the Flop. The flop is scientifically better.
Amazing how he not only invented jumping that way, his form he invented was basically perfected and not altered since. That’s some pure engineering genius
Fosbury done change the game son
What a magical Olympics. Being in the western hemisphere much of it was broadcast live on American television and the athletes broke many records. Though some credited the altitude of Mexico City many of of the records set remained for decades. Fosbury's "flop" is the standard of high jumpers today.
I think the beauty of executing the jump in Fosbury style deserve credits.
What a legacy he have created for himself. A technique that is still used to this day and going strong.
Your watching a moment in
History that changed the sport
I saw a kid called Doyle perform the "flop" into sandpits in 1964 at the Liverpool Catholic Schools' Sports. He was 11. He went to St. Swithens School in Croxteth. His jump was eventually disqualified as he was landing in sand and was therefore dangerous. Fosbury's jump technique was the ruination of the event...
Dick Fosbury shows up looking like he's never been in a weight room. Drives out to the pyramids during the opening ceremony and sleeps in a van. Looks absolutely terrified before every jump. Then sets the Olympic record without touching the bar once with a completely new technique. He's a nerd hero. He won with physics.
bro had set the AI to medium difficulty
Those western roll jumps are amazing!
They're basically just sissoring 2.20. It's insane.
Not western roll; straddle. Western roll:, the nearest leg to the bar clears the bar first; straddle: you clear the bar on your stomach. cheers
Man, to put Brian Eno's masterpiece into that kind of stuff, you have to be a genius. Such an amazing thing, thank you.
It was the brainchild of the Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana).
In 1988, RAI broadcast for an entire month during the summer, every night, several clips from 1968 to celebrate that famous year as a historical turning point. Clips about the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations in Paris, the Mexico City Olympics, the sexual revolution, etc., were shown, but with a new disclosure editing.
This is an original RAI Archive clip of the '68 Olympics without the old overlay commentaries by Italian RAI speakers.
Instead of the commentaries, RAI decided to put music by Brian Eno, which fits like a glove.
I am Italian and saw this broadcast live on TV in 1988.
@@fanciot You Italians are geniuses. Best ideas, sports cars, best cuisine, beautiful women, italo-disco, history and fashion. Nothing but respect. 🙂
RIP!! A great man and innovator. Sad he passed away today.
Possibly the best TH-cam video EVER.
Fosbury was and still is a legend. He LITERALLY turned his sport upside down
apparently the other jumpers don't have names.
You mean like Giacomo Crosa (0:49) ?
@@unfuzzy Valentin Gavrilov? Ed Carruthers?
Honestly Gavilrov also had a different technique . He used to bring right leg first and spin , when approaching from the left side.
Legend. . . . In 1968, in Mexico, Dick Fosbury won Olympic gold by revolutionizing traditional high jump technique with a totally strange a "back-first" technique.
It was new back then
Other competitors : " Huh - wha' just happened ? "
To jump over 7' using the roll is amazing to me.
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+Jesper Poulsen he is name dick fosbury ç.saD
+Jesper Poulsen That video is historical incorrect
me too
+Koen Jansen I think his daughter didn't teach him
+The EGG No it wasn't his daughter, he was in highschool when he did the fosberry flop lmao
Que maravillosa técnica de salto alto. Memorable momento, quizas uno de los mas significativos del deporte.
seeing Fosbury jump puts a smile on my face every time. It looks so magical and ahead of it's time when he does his flop
That is some dramatic high jump music.
I recebtly watched a,TH-cam video showing film footage of High Jump competition over the decades..then Fosbury shows up ..very very cool
Brumel held the world record at 2.28 at the time of 68 with the normal Straddle technique already done in 1963. In 1971 another person broke that world record, again with just the straddle technique.
73 was the first year that a flop diver took the world record (Dwight jones), but in 1978 a straddle jumper again reclaimed the WR with 2.34.
It has even been debated if the straddle technique is even better than the flop, but in the end many find it too hard to learn and master at a consistent level in competitions.
Most iconic event in Olympic history.
Whenever there will be talk about high jump ,Dick fosbury will always be remembered.
people always remember bob beaman's jump - but in its way this is just as significant. how long before the olympics had fosby been doing this?
How the heck athletes jumped before Fosbury flop! Fosbury flop changed everything! I didnt know that. I jumped always in Fosbury flop. My personal record is 1.35 metres.
Are you dumb? Im a teenager.
Dude! I started the sport school 2 years ago, i'm training, nothing is possible in short period.
2 years is short period
Before the straddle roll (used by the other two jumpers shown) there were a number of styles used. You should look at the high jump competition from the 1936 Olympics. You'll see the western roll, a modified western roll (comes close to the straddle roll) and the strangest style of all, the Eastern Cutoff (a scissors but with an adjustment made over the bar to lower the jumper's center of gravity)
One might say
He raised the bar
worth mentioning that the long jump somersault, which would have revolutionised the event in the same way, was banned.
Too dangerous and I agree; unless you put an age limit with it,18? 19?
We witnessed a revolution in high jumping and after this Olympics, NOBODY practiced the old art form
According to the comments, this guy probably gained most of his views from TedED. TedED comments below date 2 yrs ago.
Wtf is TedEd?
The TED talk is all wrong. But if it got people to take a look at what Fosbury did, then that's a good thing for the sport.
rest in peace fosbury
This is also when Bob Beaman set a world record broad jump.
OR till this day SINCE 1968!!!! 56 YEARS!!!!
Nothing brought me here..
king of twilight lol I’m reading all the “tedED brought me here” then I see your comment
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This is what's known as "Thinking outside the box" the world record set by Sotomayor still stands since 1993 using this technique
I remember when I saw on tv at that time : "how did he do that ??? what the f** is happening there ???"
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He cleared it by a mile!!!
Inspiring. Love to see innovation happen
For an olympic final, it is amasing how many people mosy on through the takeoff area!
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The landing cushion should be sunk into the ground, so the landing point is at level with the ground. Same for the pole vault.
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The chicken or the egg ? Due largely to the wider availability of foam rubber HJ landing pits (vs wood shavings), Dick Fosbury was able to safely starting using the "Fosbury Flop", the summer before his junior year Medford HS, OR (1963), Debbie Brill starting using her independently developed, "Brill Bend" around the age of 13 (@1966) in BC, Canada. However, there's no doubt that Fosbury's Olympic winning jump at Mexico City, was the "quantum leap" that changed high jumping forever. The "Fosbury Flop" made every other high jumping technique (roll, straddle) obsolete. By the 1972 Olympics in Munich, 28 out of 40 competitors in the men's HJ saw the dramatically increased potential of using the modification of the old "scissors" technique, the "flop". By 1976, virtually all men and women took up flopping and bending. Pax.
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Ted ed brought me here... This is pretty interesting though about the mass of weight
Josh Mah same
Does anyone know who composed the music? Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
What a gracefull jump of the maestro
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fosbury the legend 👍👍👍...I truely respected you so much.
The jump that changed everything
Nice job. I didn't realize Ed Caruthers wore 2 different color shoes too!
Most of them did. One was a specialist jump shoe, made specifically for the high jump.
I haven't seen that guy since the 1990s when he was my PE teacher.
Is that Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon playing in the background?
Yeahh
Fosbury is a legend...such a hard technique to use for jumping bcause every aspect of it has has to be precise...without the fosbury flop high jumping would be at a stand still competition wise...thanks dicks fosbury for helping me to clear 7'11/4" in high school in 1985 without great form
Actually others had jumped with their back to the bar around the same time and before (and independent of Fosbury), like Debbie Brill of Canada and a Montana newspaper from 1959 shows a high school kid named Bruce Quande clearing a bar with his back to it...but no doubt he popularized it and had the most early success with it which made it the preferred style of the last 40 years...
i still think this is one of the msot amazing innovative ideas in sport itself. It is actually almos the opposite of what our understandings in high jump were back then. Being a high jumper my self, it is quite amazing. I believe there never will be a technical change in the event as successful as dick's :)
You'd think, all those people walking around, walking past you, sitting down behind you etc., would destroy their concentration. That's ridiculous...
thats when men were men.
You see how long they took before they finally ran? That was them focusing. Took Fosbury a LOOOONG time to finally run.
You'd be surprised how much you can block out when you're really focused.
run???
Fosbury flop.... he revolutionised the high jump event... and changed it forever!!!!!
It's not surprising that he stayed in the same field and he's now an engineer...
This has nothing to do with engineering.
The year was 1968 and their shoes were Adidas and Pumas. Did you know that they were brothers Adi Dassler = Adi das and his brother Rudi Dassler made Pumas.
Yep and apparently they hated each other.
Some awesome ambient music over the top of this. Added by uploader? Added by the TV channel? Or was the stadium treated to these random electronic bleeps?
Added by the TV channel. It was an idea of the Italian national broadcaster RAI (Radio Televisione Italiana).
In 1988, the Italian television RAI broadcast for a whole month, during the summer, every evening, several clips of the year 1968, to celebrate that famous year as historical turning point. Clips on the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations in Paris, the Olympics in Mexico City, sexual revolution, etc.
This is an original clip from the '68 Olympics RAI Archives without the old overdub comments of the Italian RAI speakers.
Instead of comments, RAI decided to put Brian Eno's music.
I am Italian, and I saw this live broadcast on TV in 1988
@@fanciot that's amazing. Thank you! Grazie mille!
superb. thanks for uploading.
what is the music? I need to know!!!
Brian Eno : Thursday afternoon
Love the trippy music!
Beamon and Fosbury in the same olympics...good year for jumpers.
Sure, also Jim Hines (WR - 100m), Tommie Smith (WR - 200M), Lee Evans (WR 400m) David Hemmery (WR - 400m hurdles), Viktor Saneyev (WR triple jump)...
2:30 - Doesn't it seem like there are way too many people walking around the jumper right before he jumps? I mean, would that type of distraction take place in the Olympics today?
Fosberry...his psyche before going is intriguing!
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