M80 vaulter’s funky jump becomes humor fodder for ‘The Soup’

“The Soup” is a reliably funny, sarcastic and iconoclastic show on the cable network E! Thus it was inevitable that we got caught in their cross hairs. This report includes a video of how an 84-year-old pole vaulter was depicted by Los Angeles station KTLA. I couldn’t quite catch the gent’s name. Sounded like Benny Sullivan, but I can’t find any results for him. “So it’s not at all surprising that after KTLA highlighted an 84-year-old pole vaulter who struggled to make his way down the runway (and forget about clearing the bar), The Soup’s Joel McHale promptly pointed out the ridiculousness of it all,” said Ryan Wilson of AOL’s FanHouse site. Thanks go to Peter Hlavin for bringing this to our attention. Meanwhile, anyone know the vaulter?