Pole Vault LAWSUIT: Olympic Heights High School Student’s Leg Fractured Robert Bontempi, according to the suit filed by his attorneys, was playing soccer during a school sanctioned event on January 15th, 2020. When he ran out of bounds, he came into contact with unprotected sheet metal that should have never…
A former Robert Vela High School track star sued the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District after fracturing his skull and losing a part of his brain following a pole vaulting accident. According to the lawsuit filed in June, Nick Larson was seriously injured preparing for the Region IV meet in…
Max Stokey’s next pole vault victory will have to come in a courtroom, not on a track. The Hoover High School freshman, who is ranked fourth in Stark County in the event with a vault of 12 feet, 6 inches, has been “restricted from participating” in the school’s pole vault…
Kostas Filippidis, the Gold medalist at the 2014 World Indoor Championships, has filed for compensation of 530,000 euros from the administrators of the Athens Olympic Stadium (OAKA). Filippidis claims that he sustained an injury that kept out of competitive sport during training at the premises of OAKA. His injury has…
