More sports innovations lead to new events, similar to "butterfly" style of swimming breaststroke?

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Maybe high jump straddle style remains an Olympic event?
 
Allegedly.

During a football game at Rugby Grammer School William Web Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it.

Hence the game of rugby was born.
 
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https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca...096521F&R=DC-TSPA_0096521F&searchPageType=brv

The “Brill Bend” by Canadian Debbie Brill.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ma...tting-high-jumper-who-invented-technique/amp/

“ . . . Everyone figured she was one-of-a-kind. That is, until a bunch of Debbie’s friends rushed over one day at a competition in Vancouver to tell her about an older boy from the U.S. jumping the same weird way she did. . . ”
Apparently, she and American Dick Fosbury independently developed their very similar styles.
 
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