watching it. >> i was competing in the 1981 national sports festival. >> 21-year-old brian makes the finals. his first vault goes without a hitch. >> for my second vault -- and you can see i actually look down, i'm always at 65 feet, 7 inches. that's where i start from. when you run for the vault, you want to be at the end of the board. you always check the spring boards. it's almost like a ritual thing you do. i always had my board 1 1/2 feet away from where the horse is. you want it to be exactly the same every time. same number of steps. everything happens the same so you get the same results. now, unfortunately, in my case, things went just a little bit further and i got a different result. >> oh, good heavens! >> i probably ran faster than i ever ran in my life. each step probably just went a little bit further. my left foot was fine. my right foot, if you look at my right foot, just oversteps the board just a little bit and