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Bob Seagren
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A native of Pomona, California, Bob Seagren was one of the world's top pole vaulters in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He won six National AAU and four NCAA titles indoors and outdoors. Indoors he posted eight world bests between 1966 and 1969. He was ... the Pan American Games champion in 1967. He jumped his first world record (5.32 m) in Fresno on May 14, 1966, followed by his world records 1967 in San Diego (5.36 m), 1968 in South Lake Tahoe (5.41 m) and 1972 in Eugene (5.63 m).
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On a pleasant afternoon in Los Angeles last week, Bob Seagren walked out onto the track, chatted amiably with his competitors and with A.A.U. officials, and then proceeded to win the pole-vault event. His best jump of 17 ft. 4 in. was not really much of an accomplishment for Seagren; he is co-holder with Sweden's Kjell Isaksson of the world's record of 18 ft. 4¼ in. set in El Paso, Texas, in May. But without top competition, Seagren explains, he can't reach the psychological plateau necessary to crack 18 ft. "In practice, even when I'm trying, I can never get over 16½ ft." Lack of competition will not be a problem this summer in Munich.... Then the 6-ft., 175-lb. Seagren meets Isaksson in an aerial duel that very likely will decide who goes home with the Olympic gold medal in the event.
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Jodie began his run on Soap by dating professional football player Dennis Phillips (Bob Seagren) before discovering that Dennis was ... dating women for image purposes. Distressed by this news, Jodie decided to have a sex change but was dissuaded from this decision by seductive nurse Nancy Darwin (Udana Power), who was the impetus of Jodie's first foray into heterosexuality.
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After winning a gold medal in the Olympic pole vault in 1968, Seagren was embroiled in controversy at the 1972 Olympics. He had vaulted a world best 18-5 3/4 that year using a carbon pole. The IAAF ruled that the pole was illegal shortly before the Olympics.
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In the seventh year of its revival under the stewardship of former Olympic pole vaulter Bob Seagren, the event is clearly becoming a staple of the community along the same lines as the Long Beach Grand Prix. The Grand Prix is half-party, half-race. The Marathon is a par-ace, both at once, and clearly becoming more popular every year.
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Seagren and other vaulters protested, and the ban was lifted four days before competition was to begin. However, the night before the qualifying round, the IAAF once again posed the ban and "illegal" poles were confiscated. Forced to vault with an unfamiliar pole, Seagren managed to win a silver medal with a vault of 17-81/2.
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