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Beijing 080808 Video Contest

The Beijing Games are the most anticipated Olympics in a generation. The once closed country of China has invested billions of dollars to throw the biggest and best coming out party the world has ever seen. TrackandFieldtours.com and Flotrack are teaming up to get you and a friend to the Olympics. TrackandFieldtours.com is the best way to catch all the track action in Beijing. It's so good that a lot of their clients are the athletes' family and friends. Track and Field Tours owners, Adam and Jessica Dailey were both Footlocker finalists and ran at the University of Arkansas who, like us at Flotrack, saw a need in our sport and decided to do something about it. The best uploaded video will win a track fans dream vacation, a trip for two to the 08 games with tickets to the track events. For more info about the wining prize and about the community's own Adam and Jessica Dailey click Track and Field Tours.

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  1. The Best uploaded running/track related video wins 2 tickets to see the '08 Beijing Games.
  2. You can upload as many videos as you want.
  3. The winning video will be picked by the track community based on the number of votes it receives.
  4. The contest will be in 2 phases: Those who upload a video before Feb 12, 2008 and those who upload videos afterwards. The top 6 vote getting videos from phase 1 and the top 4 vote getting videos from phase 2 will move on to a final voting competition. The video that gets the most votes from these remaining 10 will be declared the winner.
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  8. Note. Videos that we find inappropriate (pornographic or obscene) will be disqualified and removed from the competition and the person who uploaded it runs the risk of having all their videos disqualified.
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Jun 14, 2008: Votes are reset and top 10 videos battle it out.
Jun 26, 2008: Winner of Beijing contest is announced.

Near Fatal Pole Vault Accident
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I Know That Guy!   March 4, 2008 at 9:14pm
he died for like 5 minutes then they started him up again. he finished the meet before he died again this time for like 7 mins but they started him up again and he rode home on the bus....most of the way.
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FAKE   March 4, 2008 at 9:37pm
haha good thing that is the fakest video I have ever seen...well done though..the reaction of the people give it away and so do the different camera angles
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Color Bars   March 5, 2008 at 1:06am
Transmission was lost within 1 second of 'impact' and we went straight to color bars and static...what network was this broadcast on?.. the guys in the truck were pretty quick.
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CLOWNY   March 6, 2008 at 12:00am
This is faker than fake... Must have taken some time to edit this one...
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Pete_x   March 6, 2008 at 6:15am
No in running toward the kid they are all standing still
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Romeo   March 6, 2008 at 9:36pm
I'm pretty sure that the guy didnt die...
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Nick Higgins   March 9, 2008 at 5:35pm
no sympathy here
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Real   March 9, 2008 at 5:38pm
i saw this in person
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Andy Cole   March 10, 2008 at 9:57pm
I feel bad for this kid, I hope he's OK. My mom couldn't watch it.
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Matt Miller   March 10, 2008 at 10:01pm
That's why the good guys wear head gear. He's be alive today.
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Time Keeper   March 10, 2008 at 11:14pm
waste of time
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Uberrunr   March 11, 2008 at 12:10pm
I remember seeing a story about this on the news, I'm from the area
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Trent_x   March 11, 2008 at 2:06pm
If the kid almost died you shouldn't put up a video of it. how would his parents feel?
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William Diaz   March 15, 2008 at 9:09pm
Thats amazing!!! How do you learn to do that.
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Obvious   March 19, 2008 at 11:54pm
wdiaz: It's easy, you just miss the mat and land flat on your back. That's messed up.
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Adsf   April 4, 2008 at 12:47am
boooo
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Ricky_x   April 17, 2008 at 8:34pm
THIS VIDEO IS FAKE EVERYONE
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Ricky_xyz   April 23, 2008 at 9:28pm
To you people who say this video is fake you need to take a close look at yourselves before making a judgement on this. If this was your team mate who took a hard crash you would not make those comments. Sounds like the kid was hurt real bad. I hope he's OK now.
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Vaulter One   April 24, 2008 at 9:17pm
I'm a 15'5" vaulter and though I've just started the sport (this is my second season) I can't understand why people don't have more sympathy for this guy. Is it because he's only vaulting 12 feet or so? come on! And I can't see how it could be faked - so I don't buy that!
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Tough Love   April 26, 2008 at 10:33pm
That guy must have broke his back. What a noob he didn't even reach the mat! LOL!!!
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Real One   April 29, 2008 at 2:41pm
here's a real almost fatal pole vault accident...http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/coverage.php?c=254&id=14095
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Real One "not"   May 1, 2008 at 9:36pm
that real one was just a slip of the palms... no harm done.
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Did You See   May 1, 2008 at 11:38pm
how close he was to smashing his head inside the box? he did a 360 -- that was nuts. 2 posts down..
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Rip   May 5, 2008 at 7:03pm
After I seen this video I quit vaulting for good. Two risky.
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Real   May 13, 2008 at 11:53pm
I say it's real.
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Stupid   May 15, 2008 at 1:30pm
not to mention the fact that the spectators are different from the first camera angle to the second. the official is in white in the first angle and has a blue jacket on in the second one.
that's some quick costume changing!
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Real   May 15, 2008 at 6:58pm
It is real.
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Bonehead   May 16, 2008 at 12:43am
If you think this is fake, vote 6.
If you think this is real, vote 5.
That will teach him.
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Helmet Law   May 16, 2008 at 4:53pm
I thought that all high school vaulters had to wear helmets and shoulder pads.
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Mississippi_x   May 16, 2008 at 5:21pm
Here in the fine state of Mississippi you must wear a standard 4mm foam insulated regulation width American-made vaulting sombrero in order to compete
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Skurey   May 16, 2008 at 5:38pm
This video is as good as cake. Ice cream cake. With those chocolate things in it. Mmmmmm.
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Voted 6   May 17, 2008 at 3:05pm
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America   May 19, 2008 at 1:03pm
you don't need a helmet stupid, what kind of dumb hick town are you from?
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Real American   May 19, 2008 at 7:26pm
Real Americans would rather DIE proud of a head wound than wear a hell-moot. A vote for this video is a vote for AMERICA!!
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Proud!   May 20, 2008 at 9:14pm
#6 for America!
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Italian Kid   May 23, 2008 at 11:37am
yay america!
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Andrew Pitts   June 9, 2008 at 7:38pm
this is fake. look at the coach in the blue to the left. When this kid falls the coach just writes something down and doesnt run to the kids aid. nice try though.
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Login   June 9, 2008 at 7:50pm
how could it be fake? nice try!
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Fake   June 12, 2008 at 2:42pm
I'm thinking this is faking purely judging off of people's reactions. Everyone just stands there except for the kid in the green off to the left who just jumps up and down.
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Fake   June 12, 2008 at 2:46pm
also notice the caption says "created" just for you
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A   June 12, 2008 at 4:50pm
The landing sound is very obviously fake. It just doesn't sound right. If you look at the guy's form and the position of the pole it all looks right. Imagine if the bar and the mat were beneath him on the screen - it would look like a normal landing. It doesn't seem physically possible for him to land behind the bar without even touching it with the pole in that position. If he really did fall, he must have been close enough to land on the mats that are in front of the bar.
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