The Highest - Arthur Penn

From the Munich Olympics film "Visions of Eight," a 13-minute masterpiece by Arthur Penn, RIP. Some background: after the shot of the torch, the remaining competitors are the medalists, Americans Jan Johnson and Bob Seagren and East German Wolfgang Nordwig. The exchange between Seagren and the official after Seagren's last vault relates to an eleventh-hour ruling banning the Americans' then-new carbon-fiber poles.