Bob Richards
Bob Richards
Robert Eugene "Bob" Richards, nicknamed 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. He competed in the 1948, 1952, and 1956 Summer Olympics as a pole vaulter, and as a decathlete in 1956. He is the only male two-time Olympic gold medal winner in the pole vault, thus also the only man to defend his Olympic title. He also won a bronze medal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth20 February 1926
CountryUnited States of America
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We will be pretty busy here for a while building a new facility and just learning about the community and the Toyota and Mazda lines,
She dove as well as she's been diving all year, but the competition was definitely the toughest she's seen, and that's how it should be. I was just very pleased with how well she did.
Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.
People come to see the stars, and then they walk away with two or three new favorites.
I was quite enjoying the time, frankly. I was traveling, working around the house, golfing and helping my daughters.
The audience responds and you can see it start. The next step is trying to figure out another way to get (an act) into town.
It was a real culture shock. It was a very fast-paced, demanding fishbowl.