A French pole vaulter eliminated when a part of him not usually mentioned in athletics knocked the bar off. Three days of jokes, a reported offer from an adult website, and the record's only entry about an anatomical disqualification.
Small fix: the peak year is right but the peak was shorter than a year — closer to six weeks. The rest of 2024 was people explaining it.
Died in a weekend, which is correct. The record has a rule that a joke about a real person's body gets one news cycle and no more, and for once the internet obeyed it.
I remember when Pole Vault Guy was still a niche thing — August 2024 — and you could use it without a footnote. The footnote arrived about six weeks later and never left.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
