OSAKA, Japan — While her competitors struggled, one dropping out with a leg injury, another puffy-eyed and crying after a dispute with the judges, Yelena Isinbayeva remained in her bubble. She stretched out on the infield of Nagai Stadium with a big white towel over her head, hiding from the television…
LEADING Australia medal hope Steven Hooker has finished a disappointing ninth in the men’s pole vault at the world athletics championships. Hooker’s only two successful clearances came at 5.51m and 5.76m. He then passed at 5.81m, had two failed attempts at 5.86m and missed again with his last remaining vault…
OFF the runway Paul Burgess has been playing in a band with no name while Steve Hooker has given up his day job as a property developer. The pole-vaulting pair’s preparations for the world athletics championships have contrasted greatly and not just away from their sport. Burgess has hardly missed…
OSAKA, Japan — While her competitors struggled, one dropping out with a leg injury, another puffy-eyed and crying after a dispute with the judges, Yelena Isinbayeva remained in her bubble. She stretched out on the infield of Nagai Stadium with a big white towel over her head, hiding from the television…
