Olympic gold and 20 feet beckon as
Soviet pole vaulter Sergei Bubka, not unlike the flowers in his hometown of Donetsk, bursts skyward
Dwight Stones took the high jump at 7» 2», but
pole vaulter Dan Ripley, who had set an indoor record of 18» 1/4» the week before, could do only 17» 6» and finished second to Yuri Isakov of the
Soviet Union, who cleared the same height with fewer misses.