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Relive Robert Richards' victory in the pole vault event during the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

http://www.olympic.org/uk/utilities/multimedia/gallery/results_uk.asp?entid=52&MediaType=VID&page=4

Also Seoul 1988 Sergey Bubka & Relive Bob Mathias's (USA-athletics) victory in the decathlon at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.

Very cool videos. So, did you see all the "bend" that the "vaultin' vicar" got off of that ol' red Gill pole. Yeah right! That is how I learned to vault, by taking my left hand and sliding it up the pole at take off. Regardless, that performance is what put ol' Reverend Bob Richards on the Wheaties Box. (He was the first athlete to have his picture put on the breakfast of champions cereal box) . Later...............Mike