VERMILLION, S.D. | Where does Derek Miles store his Olympic bronze medal — in a special case glorifying its greatness? In a frame at his office? In a safe deposit box? None of the above. Not yet, anyway. “I think it’s in my wife’s nightstand,” Miles said with a laugh.…
American pole vaulter Derek Miles has belatedly been awarded a bronze medal from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, five months after the disqualification of initial third place finisher Denys Yurchenko. The Ukrainian was retrospectively stripped of his result after re-analysis of his samples detected banned anabolic steroid turinabol. Miles recorded…
VERMILLION, S.D. | As the opening ceremony for 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro airs on TV Friday evening, Derek Miles will do something he hasn’t done for more than a decade. Watch it from his couch. Miles, 43, competed in the pole vault in each of the last…
It was ecstasy. Bethany Buell popped off the mat, leapt into the air and raced to her coach. The University of South Dakota’s pole vaulting pride and joy had just done the unimaginable. She won the national championship. Buell cleared 14 feet, 7.25 inches on her final jump to tie…
The skinny teenager from California showed up at the University of South Dakota more than 20 years ago wanting to be a pole vaulter. Though his coaches admired the youngster’s spirit, they did not see an Olympic competition in his future, let alone three of them. Moving ahead two decades,…
LONDON (Reuters) – Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie produced an Olympic record jump of 5.97 meters to win gold in the men’s pole vault on Friday as silver and bronze went to Germany. Germans Bjorn Otto, 34, and his 22-year-old compatriot Raphael Holzdeppe cleared 5.91m, but Holzdeppe had more missed attempts which…
Steve Hooker has claimed his powers of persuasion played a decisive role in his qualification for the London Olympics men’s pole vault final. The reigning Olympic champion made just one attempt in qualifying, clearing a height of 5.50 metres and then convinced his fellow competitors and the officials to expand…
LONDON, UK – 14 men are through to the final of the Pole Vault which takes place on Friday evening. The bookmakers have France’s Renaud Lavillenie as the hot favourite, but will be crossing their fingers for a similar scenario to the women’s competition, which saw Russian heroine Yelena Isinbayeva…
LONDON | Siouxland’s two pole vaulting Olympians failed to qualify on Wednesday for the final round at the London Games. Jeremy Scott, a native of Norfolk, Neb., hit the qualifying mark of 5.50 meters (approximately 18 feet, ½ inch), but failed to advance because it took him two attempts. Six…
South Dakota track and field assistant coach Derek Miles will compete in the pole vault preliminaries at the 2012 Summer Olympics on Wednesday, Aug. 8 at 4 a.m. Central time in London, England. According to the USATF Web site, the qualifying rounds for the men’s pole vault, the men’s 5,000…
