Seldom has a pole been so thoroughly inspected as in the case of Hiroki Ogita, a Japanese pole vaulter. The 28-year-old was, alas, sent home without a medal when he inadvertently dislodged a bar with a particularly unfortunate part of his body.
In reviewing the footage, it’s difficult to say exactly what caused the bar to fall. The facts that we have are these: he was knocked out in the qualifying rounds when attempting to vault a bar about 17 feet above the ground. A few parts of his body seem to have contact the bar — first his leg, then the region below his waist, and then finally his arm.
Was it the arm that dislodged the bar? Or was it a different protuberance? The slow-motion footage shows a rather painful-looking flapping in his pants that slaps against the bar. We’ve watched it over and over and over (and over and over) and while it’s clear that his arm makes the most dramatic contact, there’s a particularly dramatic contact with his midsection before the arm becomes involved.
Take a look for yourself below (or here if the embed isn’t working):
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The whole thing looks pretty painful, and the look on his face seems to bear out that he is experiencing a rather intimate pain.
To be fair, Ogita’s jumps are pretty remarkable: he made it up to 17.8 feet on a subsequent attempt, easily clearing the bar. But that still wasn’t good enough, and he wound up in 21st place.
If it’s any consolation, though, he’s first place in our hearts today. Alas, poor pole vaulters — sometimes they can’t seem to catch a break. Sure are nice to look at, though.
Kangol
Ogita nearly broke his pole trying to clear the pole.
D P
watching that video I would say that it clearly *was* his pole hitting the horizontal pole that caused his own pole to extend.
Hussain-TheCanadian
OH MY GOD is the man OK??? Queerty needs to send a PROFESSIONAL medical team ASAP, headed by me of-course, to make sure that the man’s pole is ok.
Xzamilio
He may have been disqualified, but at least he can say his dick’s qualified… right?
Marky
Hmm, belt or keys or something else? I doubt that the uniform is constructed to allow that much movement of your parts. Those shorts are designed to keep things in place i.e. they’re tight. They aren’t super tight with a linen-gossamer dick patch sewn in.
LOL. Nice try. AGAIN.
robho3
Ouch!! Poor thing
He BGB
You’d think those guys would tie that down or tuck or something knowing they need to avoid the bar. Maybe the Olympics has a No Tucking rule?
Kangol
@He BGB: They are free to wear jockstraps, copmression shorts under their singlets or shorts, etc. Some of the track athletes clearly do strap things down, while others run around with sacks of groceries or a baby carrot visible. I’d think the pole vault and hurdlers would demand strapping things down but clearly that’s not the case.