Japanese Pole
Vaulter at Rio 2016, Hiroki Ogita has hit back on Twitter at the jests and
criticism he's received after his seemingly 'erect' penis and leg hit the bar
at 17 feet, 4 inches leading to his disqualification from the men's pole vault competition
on
Monday.
The video
quickly spread online with most people on social media joking that he would
have qualified if his erect penis hadn't gotten in the way. The athlete has
fired back on Twitter.
"I never
expected the foreign media to take me down like this," the 28-year-old
athlete tweeted in Japanese. "It's one thing if it was true, but I have to
say I'm pretty devastated that they'd go so far to make something up to mock
and ridicule me so much."
"To be
honest, it's pretty rough, but I guess I'm in the spotlight so this might be
some kind of opportunity. I'll do my best and get the results so that I get the
last laugh," he wrote.
"It
doesn't matter if you do it for a joke or whatever, I ask you to go and watch
an actual game at a stadium for once. I hope you appreciate, even a bit, what a
great sport pole vaulting is."
He eventually
tweeted that he was able to see the funny side of the whole episode:
"Watching again, this is pretty funny, if I say so myself. LOL."
"He had
already pressed on the crossbar so much," pole vaulting coach David Yeo
said in Singapore.
"The
crossbar was bound to dislodge. I think it was just the crumpling of the fabric
which happened at the wrong position."
Mr Ogita did
clear the bar on his second attempt but as he only managed a height of 5.45m on
his final jump, the earlier foul cost him. He finished too far down the field
to progress through the qualifying stage.
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