After I wrote, yesterday, that the 32-year gap in U.S. gold medals obscured
the over-all dominance of American vaulters in the Olympics, Dave Carey
wrote to me, asking about their scoring during the "drought" years:
How about some statistics showing how deep the drought was.
The old
Recently, there was a brief thread on the long gap in U.S. Olympic gold
between Bob Seagren's win at Mexico City (1968) and that of Nick Hysong in
Sydney (2000). That discussion managed to neglect the massive over-all
domination of the event by U.S. vaulters.
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