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To me, his being memorable was coming up with a new way of attempting something in a genre that had been pretty stable for millennia. Track and Field is seeing who can run the fastest, jump the farthest, jump the highest, or throw the farthest. The way to attempt all of those had been basically unchanged since ancient times. He not only tried a different way to jump, he fundamentally changed how everyone approached high jumping. Something similar was the introduction of spinning to throw a shotput in the 1970s, but that was an adaptation of the technique used for throwing a discus.