Beijing 2008 – It’s a wrap at The Big Picture (39 photos)

If you look at the high jump of Blanka Vlasic, you can see how it’s possible to do a high jump with your center-of-mass (focus on the physics) never rising above the bar, though I think in this jump it is higher, since she’s clearing the bar by a bit. But I would guess that her COM is below her torso.

And that last one is going in my desktop picture rotation.