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<\/a><\/div>\nAn American pole vaulter took his patriotism to the next level at the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Sam Kendricks, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve and an Olympic pole vaulter, stopped mid-attempt to pay his respects to his country.<\/p>\n
SEE ALSO: Runner’s brave gesture at the Rio Olympics could cost him his life<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kendricks was competing in the qualifying round of the men’s pole vault in Rio on Aug. 13, when he skidded to a halt, threw his pole on the ground and stood to attention while the anthem played. The video was posted online by NBC on Sunday.<\/p>\n The pause didn’t affect Kendricks’ pole vault game, with the 23-year-old athlete winning the qualifying event and then going on to win bronze in the final on Monday. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n More about Usa<\/a>, Pole Vault<\/a>, Rio Olympics 2016<\/a>, Rio 2016<\/a>, and Entertainment<\/a> An American pole vaulter took his patriotism to the next level at the Olympics. Sam Kendricks, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve and an Olympic pole vaulter, stopped mid-attempt to pay his respects to his country. SEE ALSO: … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,4038,1487,4002,4037],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-pole-vault","tag-rio-2016","tag-rio-olympics-2016","tag-usa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"