But, as luck would have it, the American Broadcasting Corporation was taping the event.
In fact, he performed spectacularly badly. In March, he drove to Oberstdorf, in West Germany, to take part in a competition there. In 1970, Vinko Bogataj was a 22-year-old forklift driver in Lesce, Yugoslavia. What would it take to prompt the most famous person in the world to ask you for your autograph? Would you have to be the most successful person on earth? How about – the most well-known failure in America?