I’m old enough to remember an era—the Pleistocene maybe—when it seemed perfectly right and natural for high jumpers to go over the bar stomach first. The straddle technique, I think they called it. Then Dick Fosbury came along and flew over the bar backwards and the straddle went the way of the steam engine, the … Continue reading The glide is dead! The glide is…Hang on…China’s Gong dominates the 2019 Pre Classic Women’s Shot