Kiwi pole vault ace Eliza McCartney is taking no chances with injuries in 2018, and will miss her scheduled Diamond League opener to rest a hamstring niggle that cropped up in training. McCartney’s coach Jeremy McColl told Stuff that it was an easy decision to bypass this weekend’s meet in Doha where his…
Emma Grace thought her athletic career was over. She suffered a compressed and displaced fracture of her lower spine and sacral segment and herniated three discs in her back as a seventh-grade cheerleader. Doctors expected her to struggle walking. No one expected her to fly. “I want to just (go…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Cheers of victory turned to fears of a debacle when athletics chief Philip Ella Juico broke the news that gold medal potential Ernest John Obiena hurt his left knee in training in Manila on the eve of his departure for the Southeast Asian Games. The other…
It takes a lot to extinguish the enthusiasm and optimism of Kiwi pole vault sensation Eliza McCartney. So even though the 20-year-old from Devonport will compete at the world athletics championships at London’s Olympic stadium on Saturday morning (NZT) with the equivalent of the handbrake on, she remains hopeful of…
Eliza McCartney’s renowned positive disposition is facing its toughest test as the Kiwi pole vault phenomenon battles a debilitating Achilles tendon injury that leaves her world championships hopes hanging in the balance. The Olympic bronze medallist has revealed exclusively to Stuff from her training base in Germany that a meeting…
France’s Vanessa Boslak has had a nightmare three years when at times she never imagined she would ever see a pole vault pit in her life again. In 2009 her athletics life was put on temporary hold when she went under the surgeon’s knife for a knee injury. Unfortunately, complications…
