Every athlete wants to start their season on a winning note. Although some insist momentum is meaningless, it’s hard to argue that a win puts you into the right frame of mind. For Karleigh Parker, the College Avenue graduate and Western Kentucky University junior, there’s nothing like breaking your own…
Breaking the British pole vault record had long been one of Steve Lewis’s goals, and tonight in the Polish city of Szczecin he finally achieved it. Competing at the Janusz Kusociński Memorial, Lewis opened at 5.52m – 12 centimetres higher than his best jump from the rain-soaked London Grand Prix…
Olympic hopefuls are often questioned on their whereabouts at the time of the last Games. In the case of Holly Bleasdale, she had not even been introduced to the sport of pole vault, in which she is a medal contender, when Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva soared to a successful defence of…