A high jumper cleared the bar and the camera caught her mid-flight with her fist pumping toward the sky before her body had even finished rotating over the bar. The celebration started while she was still airborne, which is either supreme confidence or a very short memory about how gravity works.
High jump technique requires the athlete to arch backward over the bar and rotate. The Fosbury Flop looks elegant from the side. From any angle, the mid-air fist pump adds a layer of comedy — the body is still completing a complex athletic maneuver while the brain has already moved on to the victory lap. She cleared the height. The premature celebration became the photo everyone remembered, because nothing is funnier than someone celebrating a job before the job is technically finished.
