World record holder Mondo Duplantis soared to a season-leading 6.03m in Rouen on Saturday, edging out rival and former Olympic champion Renaud Lavillenie on his home ground. Duplantis, 21, easily cleared the height before attempting an ambitious assault on his own world record of 6.18m. READ MORE
PROVO, Utah – Sophomore All-American Zach McWhorter cleared 5.76m/18-10.75 to set a new BYU indoor record in the pole vault on Saturday at the BYU Cougar Indoor Invite II. McWhorter initially broke the school record with a vault of 5.71m/18-8.75 before clearing the bar 5 centimeters higher. The previous school…
International sports federation staff and athletes can be expected to face coronavirus testing or temperature checks before traveling to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, upon arrival and regularly during the Games, organizers said Wednesday in publishing the first in a series of playbooks outlining virus countermeasures. The 32-page international sports…
With COVID-19 cases up and lags in vaccine rollout, can the Olympics be held safely? With COVID-19 cases surging in Japan and variants spreading globally, the last few weeks have seen a seesawing of headlines about the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. On one side, polls showed that more than 80 percent…
February and it’s looking like Covid-19 is and was a thing of the past. Many are ready to participate and somehow the regulations are all relaxed and ready to go. We at Vaulter Magazine feel bad for all the athletes that have had their careers ended by this pandemic over…
