The height was 5.98 meters and three athletes remained, two of whom were world champions.
A competition between two world champions could draw in a very large audience by itself, but a third party took part in the competition. Franz Muller, a young man who was new to the Olympic Games, was about to challenge the record height along with the two world champions.
He was at least going to win a bronze medal. Getting a bronze medal was an impressive achievement in men's pole vault when one was competing with two world champions.
The handsome young man drew more and more attention. The audience began to talk about his good looks and reporters began to search for his information. They found he had no achievements in international competitions and, looking into it further, didn't have any in U.S. either.
"This Franz Muller was chosen by you, wasn't he?" The team leader, Downey asked. "He never took part in any qualifying competition, right?"
