The incident was even commemorated six years later in 2012 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris ... To the average Pole, the 1980 Summer Olympics are chiefly linked to the memory of the pole vault ...

Anthony Ammirati, the French pole vaulter who went viral for his bulge at the 2024 Paris Olympics ... can be seen carrying what appears to be a vaulting pole with his phone tucked into his ...