Picture this: an embattled and nationally-renowned track coach walking onto his former university’s home track a month after abruptly retiring — a shocking move that spelled an end to 33 years at Idaho State. He has a salt-and-pepper colored beard few have seen. He’s beloved by students and peers. He…
DONETSK (UKR): IAAF Vice-President Sergey Bubka welcomed recent success of IAAF in fight against doping. “All this news with results of re-tested samples from Olympic Games 2004 and World Championships 2005 are showing the cheaters will be catched. Sooner or later. That is good for our sport. IAAF shows the…
Pueblo Colorado vaulter in Hall of Fame: Even the best of athletic careers sometimes can fade with time. Gary Gehlhoff will never be forgotten. Gehlhoff played as a sophomore on Central High School’s 1961 football state championship team. As a senior, he was a member of the Cats’ state runner-up basketball team and…
George Mattos, a two-time Olympic pole vaulter and San Jose State graduate, died Thursday in Oregon after suffering from prostate cancer, family members said. He was 83. Mattos, who finished ninth in the 1952 Helsinki Games and fourth in Melbourne four years later, spent more than three decades as a…
Harry Babcock began his career as a long jumper, placing third at the IC4As in 1909. He won the AAU pole vault in 1910 and 1912 and the IC4A title in 1911. Marc Wright set a new world record of 13-2¼ (4.02) at the 1912 Olympic Trials, but in Stockholm, Babcock…
July 17, 2012 – Looking back 40-plus years, Bob Seagren, one of the world’s top pole vault athletes at the time and who graced the cover of a 1967 issue of Sports Illustrated, recalled the life-changing experiences as a participant in two Olympic Games. A native of Pomona, Seagren graduated from…
