Chimeric Network or Fosbury Flop?

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This article is an effort to encourage the assholes of bgonline.org/forums to try better next year to be on time and more on point with their April fool's joke...

Surely most of you must have watched the Olympic competitions at some point in your lives and perhaps even observed how the techniques have changed and evolved in almost all fields of competition.

Let's take high jumping for example. Here is a brief history found on the Internet:

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By Pauline Abreu, on July 13, 2009:

The high jump has been an Olympic event since ancient Greek times. The first recorded high jump event took place in Scotland in the 19th Century. The high jump is a track and field event where a horizontal bar is placed at certain heights, athletes jump over the bar, the one who jumps the highest height wins. There have been various jumping techniques over the years, in the beginning there was just the standard straight on approach. The scissor technique was also used where the athlete approached sideways and the right leg went over first, the left leg followed in a scissor motion.

Irish-American M.F. Sweeney came up with a new version of the jump during the 20th century. Known as the Eastern Cut-Off, he started off as if he was doing the scissor style, but then as he jumped he flattened his back over the bar. This method proved to be a success for Sweeney as he made the world record of 6 feet 5.25 inches of bar clearance. An even more efficient method was developed by M.F. Horine, called the western roll. The bar is approached at a diagonal like usual, but in this style the inner leg is used for the take off, the outer leg is thrust up to push the body over the high jump bar. Horine, also an American, beat the record with this style of jump, making the new record 6 feet 7 inches. In 1936 the Berlin Olympics was won by Cornelius Johnson when he jumped to a height of 6 feet 8 inches.

Russian and American athletes won the Olympics for the next four decades. In 1956 the straddle style jump again modernized high jump techniques, with Charles Dumas finally jumping higher than 7 feet. The take off was the same as the Western Roll, but athletes would rotate their bellies towards the bar as they jumped. Valeriy Brumel continued to win a succession of high jump events for four years in a row, he made the approach to the bar faster. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1964, with a jump height of 7 feet 6 inches. Unfortunately, a motorcycle accident ended his high jumping career.

Later in high jumping history the floor mats became cushioned and padded, as opposed to the sawdust that was used for landing purposes before. As a result the high jump landings became more modern with the athletes knowing that there was less chance of injury. Dick Fosbury developed a new technique by launching himself over the bar, head and shoulders first, and landing in such a way that would have done him damage in the old sawdust days. This move became known as the Fosbury Flop, and he won the 1968 Olympic gold medal. Over the years the high jump has become a more modern track and field event with improvements being made all the time.
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Do you all think that backgammon is immune to the kind of "Fosbury Flop" evolution...?

You all know very well that it's not. And hence the "Chimeric Network" as a last pathetic attempt at denial...

However, it's well accepted that there is some truth behind every joke and it's not a "matter of if" but a "matter of when" until somebody jumps over today's so-called world-class, or even worse, extraterrestrial-class bots "backwards"...! :))

MK