Olympic Gold Medalist Guinn Smith Dies

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 4H0GL1.DTL

[hjsteve1.97]

Re: Olympic Gold Medalist Guinn Smith Dies

what a very neat article, thanks for it.

Boy we sure have lost a ton of OG'ers in the last few years and months and days, haven't we.

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Re: Olympic Gold Medalist Guinn Smith Dies

Nice little bit of trivia I found in an AI obit: he was the last vaulter to win Oly gold on a bamboo pole.

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Re: Olympic Gold Medalist Guinn Smith Dies

Garry, I was scared during one second it was
about my hero Calvin SMITH !!!

[hijumpsteve]

Re: Olympic Gold Medalist Guinn Smith Dies

Garry, it would be interesting to know if Smith was in the minority using bamboo in 1948. How and when did metal poles take over ? Maybe our resident PV guru, oldvaulter, can provide some info on this.