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

One sprinter in particular caught the spectators’ ____.

He was touching the ground with his hips ____ 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 ____ him setting the first Olympic record.

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

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

They ____ that there is always room for improvement.

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

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

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

This problem was resolved by an American high ____ student named 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 ____ make a forward roll first to change direction and then kick against the wall to speed ahead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The key factors for them to increase lift and ____ 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 ____ to maximize their time in the air, aiming to achieve longer distances.

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

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

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

This technique doubled the average ____ distance.

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

In this style, the skiers position their skis into a “V” shape with their heads ____ 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 enables ____ to land at a safer speed, reducing the risk of injury.

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

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

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

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

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

Then he found that when he went over the bar backward and landed headfirst, he could jump higher ____ 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 ____ the center of gravity, the less energy required to successfully jump over the bar.

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

The result was a huge ____.

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

But up to that point, every jumper in the event had only gone over the bar forward, ____ backward.

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

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

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

Athletes often face ____ when they realize that conventional techniques aren’t working 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 understanding of themselves and discover their own ____ strengths.