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Five sprinters were getting ready at the starting line of the men’s 100-meter sprint in 1896 ____ the first modern Olympic Games were held.

One sprinter in particular ____ the spectators’ attention.

He was touching the ____ with his hips raised towards the sky, while the others were simply standing.

The spectators laughed at the position of his body, but it took only 11.8 seconds for them to witness him setting the first Olympic ____.

This sprinter’s name was Thomas ____, and his innovative technique called a crouch start has become the standard starting position since then.

Here are some key ____ introduced by great athletes who challenged themselves to find what worked best.

They proved that ____ is always room for improvement.

Up until the 1936 Olympics, swimmers ____ an open turn.

They touched the wall with one or two hands first, turned to the side, and ____ off from the wall by bending their legs.

However, open turns had the critical disadvantage of ____ the swimmers’ flow and speed.

This problem was resolved by an American high school student ____ Al Vande Weghe.

While practicing the backstroke, he ____ that his legs were too heavy for an open turn, which caused him to slow down.

To overcome this drawback, he devised a ____ that is now known as a flip turn.

He would make a forward ____ first to change direction and then kick against the wall to speed ahead.

This ____ allowed him to maintain as much of his speed and momentum as possible.

His ____ to take a risk and keep experimenting paid off.

____ this technique, he won a silver medal in the 1936 Olympics.

____ turns are now the standard in freestyle and backstroke races.

Ski jumping is one of the most spectacular winter Olympic ____.

The skiers jump from the height of 90 meters, which is as high as a 30-story apartment ____.

Most of the skiers are ____ to stay in the air for about five to seven seconds.

While they are in the air, they are influenced by “____,” an upward force produced by air on a fast-moving object.

When the force of ____ is balanced with the force of gravity, the skiers can fly for long distances.

The key factors for ____ to increase lift and jumping distance are increasing their speed, spreading out their bodies and skis, and adjusting their body angle.

As jumps are judged mostly on jumping distance as well as their style, skiers have tried many techniques to maximize their time in the ____, aiming to achieve longer distances.

In the beginning, ____ skiers simply stood upright throughout their jump.

Later, this ____ style was replaced by the Kongsberger style.

The skiers’ upper body was ____ at the hips, with their arms extended in front of them and their skis parallel to each other.

This technique ____ the average jumping distance.

Everything changed in 1985, however, when Swedish jumper Jan ____ introduced the V style.

In this style, the skiers position their ____ into a “V” shape with their heads placed between the skis.

This modification increases the surface area and creates more lift, leading to even ____ jumping distances.

Wind tunnel tests showed that the V style improves air lift by 28%, which means that skiers can stay in the ____ longer.

This style also ____ skiers to land at a safer speed, reducing the risk of injury.

The V ____ was not immediately adopted by the skiing community.

In fact, it was ____ ridiculed and received fewer style points for breaking the standard of parallel skis.

However, the ____ proved so successful that by 1992 all Olympic medalists were using it.

Dick Fosbury practiced the major ____ jump techniques, such as the scissors and the straddle, for the Olympics when he was in high school.

He soon realized, however, that these techniques were challenging for him because he didn’t have the strength or ____ they require.

Then he found that when he went over the bar ____ and landed headfirst, he could jump higher than anyone on his team.

As an engineering major, he ____ explained that arching the body backward keeps the jumper’s center of gravity low to the ground.

The lower the center of gravity, the less energy required to ____ jump over the bar.

Another advantage is that with this technique, there is less chance that the jumper’s ____ or legs will hit the bar and knock it down.

The ____ was a huge success.

____ won a gold medal in the high jump in the 1968 Olympics.

But up to that point, every jumper in the event had only gone ____ the bar forward, not backward.

Local newspapers criticized his style, saying that he looked like “a fish ____ in a boat” and calling him “the world’s laziest high jumper.”

Eight years later, however, 90% of all high jumpers were going over the bar ____ just like Fosbury.

Today, ____ high jumper performs what is known as the “Fosbury Flop.”

Athletes often face challenges when they realize that conventional techniques aren’t ____ out for them.

They then make determined efforts to ____ these weaknesses.

Some of these athletes end up developing remarkable innovative techniques, ____ eventually become the new norm.

Innovation flourishes when individuals have a deep ____ of themselves and discover their own unique strengths.