Watching the Olympic pole vault,
(image NOT me)
I'll never forget, when I first got a fiberglass pole, after vaulting with 'Swedish Steel', which WAS the ultimate. Within a few days, I figured it out, THEN, I'll never forget the feeling, as the pole broke, and I landed flat on my back, before the days of foam landing pits. Couldn't walk for a while, but by the Big Ten meet, I was ready to go, but with no fiberglass pole, cuz I had broken our one and only. But, Mike Monk, of McCook, loaned me his, after he was put out, and I won, and set a school record. The good ol' days of sportsmanship. Thanks, Mike.
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