The "Friendship Meeting" was born after the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, causing over time an easing of tension on the two fronts of the "Iron Curtain" by inviting and formally recognizing the DDR athletes - despite the prefecture's prohibition to show its flag. Soon moved to Siena, in 1973 amateur Sauro Ravaglia films some of its stages. In this sequence, Dwight Stones's warm up routine draws some attention: US high-jumper, he then held the world record - earned in Berlin a few days earlier - and was one of the first ones to implement the Fosbury flop, beside the first man to jump 2,30 mt. and above.