Here are some recent headlines from the Olympics:

"A Pole Vaulter's Penis Ended His Olympic Dream" (Vice)
"Japanese pole vaulter's penis gets in his way at Olympics" (New York Daily News)
"The only time a man wishes he had a SMALLER penis!" (The Daily Mail)
"Pole vaulter has Olympic bid sabotaged by his own penis" (The Daily Dot)
"Inconvenient Penis Is A Huge Problem For Japanese Pole Vaulter Hiroki Ogita In Rio" (Huffington Post)
"Pole vaulter's penis gets in the way of his Olympic dreams" (Mashable)
"JAPANESE POLE VAULTER: HOISTED BY MY OWN PENIS" (TMZ)
"When Poles Collide: Olympic Vaulter Hiroki Ogita's Unlikely Downfall" (Queerty)
"Japanese pole vaulter dislodges bar with penis, watches Olympic dreams shrivel" (Sporting News)
"Olympic Pole Vaulter Tries to Clear Bar, Big Ol' Dick Gets in the Way" (GQ)
"Penis crushes pole vaulter's Olympic dream" (New York Post)

Those headlines all contain one lie, and some contain two. Hiroki Ogita, the pole vaulter mostly unnamed in those headlines, clearly did not knock over the bar with his penis. Watch the video:



He dislodges the bar with his leg, then his penis makes incidental contact with the bar as it's already headed down! This penis did not knock down a pole vault bar; if so, it would be the strongest penis of all time.

Also, Ogita's Olympic competition didn't end with that jump. That video was a miss at 5.30m in the qualifying round. Ogita cleared 5.30m on his next attempt, and went on to clear 5.45m before missing at 5.60m. Despite the BBC's scurrilous and false reporting, the miss at 5.30m had no effect on his failure to advance to the next round. He only cleared 5.45m, and it took 5.60m to advance. If he did clear 5.60m, then the alleged penis-miss could have come into play.

Ogita knows his genitals were not the culprit of his demise--he said, "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. 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 softened his stance, as the BBC translated one of his tweets as, "Watching again, this is pretty funny, if I say so myself. LOL."

p.s.

— (Ogita Hiroki) (@ogih1230) August 16, 2016

But his penis didn't knock over that bar. And if it did, it wouldn't have knocked him out of the Olympics.