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02461aam a2200337Ki 4500 001 2F17DD9CC93111E88539171297128E48 003 SILO 005 20181006010511 008 180913t20182018nyuaf e bi 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1510736190 020 $a 9781510736191 035 $a (OCoLC)1052466115 040 $a DMM $b eng $e rda $c DMM $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d UIB $d SILO 082 04 $a 796.432092 $2 23 100 1 $a Welch, Bob, $d 1954- $e author. 245 14 $a The wizard of Foz : $b Dick Fosbury's one-man high-jump revolution / $c by Bob Welch with Dick Fosbury ; forward by Ashton Eaton. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Skyhorse Publishing, $c [2018] 300 $a xlv, 262 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-241) and index. 520 $a "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."--Amazon.com. 600 10 $a Fosbury, Dick. 650 0 $a Track and field. 650 0 $a Jumping. 650 0 $a Olympics. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Fosbury, Dick, $e author. 700 1 $a Eaton, Ashton, $e author of forward. 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006121732.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2F17DD9CC93111E88539171297128E48 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search