(Photo: AFP)japan.jpg Japan’s Hiroki Ogita came very close to clearing the bar in the men’s pole vault qualifying round at the 2016 Olympic Games, but at the last second the vault fail, throwing Ogita out of the competition. “Watching again, this is pretty funny, if I say so myself. I think it was just the Spandex Fabric wholesale crumpling of the fabric which happened at the wrong position,” he added. In a campaign that has gone viral, web users claim Hiroki Ogita’s penis “prevented him from progressing at the Rio Olympics”. Ogita has expressed shock at the way the Web has been talking about his privates. It doesn’t matter if you do it for a joke or whatever, I ask you to go and watch an actual game at a stadium for once. Twitter user @wotarou0019kota tweeted (in Japanese): “Don’t stress over it and be positive! I do athletics as well, and sometimes stuff happens. “It’s one thing if it was true, but I have to say I’m pretty devastated that they’d go so far to make something up to mock and ridicule me so much.

A Japanese pole vaulter is being mocked across the Web after his penis seemingly hit the bar while he was clearing the jump. “I never expected the foreign media to take me down like this,” the 28-year-old athlete tweeted. LOL,” he eventually tweeted. “The crossbar was bound to dislodge. I’ll do my best and get the results so that I get the last laugh.”The BBC quoted a pole vaulting expert who said the controversy was all because of an unfortunate camera angle.end-ofLocation: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro. But he did finally find some humour in the incident. “To be honest, it’s pretty rough, but I guess I’m in the spotlight so this might be some kind of opportunity.Japan’s Hiroki Ogita came very close to clearing the bar in the men’s pole vault qualifying round at the 2016 Olympic Games, but at the last second the vault fail, throwing Ogita out of the competition. I hope you appreciate, even a bit, what a great sport pole vaulting is,” he said, in all seriousness. “He had already pressed on the crossbar so much,” pole vaulting coach David Yeo was quoted as saying by the BBC. It’s awesome enough that you’re able to be up there on the world stage, so hold your head up high and keep on jumping!”Ogita too is trying to stay positive amidst the rather personal crisis. Twitter users in Japan have, however, expressed support.A video clip of the athlete hitting the bar with what seemed to some his penis is currently trending online.