August 04, 2024
During the 1980s and ’90s, Olympic gold medal winner Sergei Bubka was so dominant at pole vaulting, sponsors awarded him bonus money each time he broke a world record. Bubka broke the world record 35 times, often improving on a record he himself set and only by a centimeter at a time so he could easily break it again for another bonus.
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