He will have just turned 36 but a familiar name could be on the start-list when the competitors are announced for the pole vault at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Göteborg in March. It is more than four years since Dutchman Rens Blom has been retired from the sport.…
AMSTERDAM (NED): Former pole vault world champion Rens Blom will not continue as national pole vault coach in Netherlands. His contract which ends in 2012 will not be renewed. It is because there are no pole vaulters aiming to compete at 2016 Olympic Games in the country. The training center…
LINSCHOTEN, the Netherlands — Years ago, the story goes, Dutch farmers crossed the canals dividing their fields by vaulting over them with a pole, since bridges were few and far between. This apparently never translated into Olympic glory in the pole vault, but it did give rise to a sport…
