There are many people who could be Olympic champions. All-Americans who have never tried. I'd estimate more than 5 million people could have beaten me in the pole vault the years I won it... at least 5 million. Men that were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground trying to get over the bar.

He and running mate Maureen Salaman earned 66324 votes. In 1988 that same party nominated white-supremacist David Duke for president. He competed in the 1948 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter and also was a decathlete in 1956.

The Reverend Robert Eugene Richards known as Bob Richards (born February 20 1926 in Champaign Illinois) known as the "Vaulting Vicar" or the "Pole Vaulting Parson" in his competitive days was a versatile athlete who made three US Olympic Teams in two events.