EUGENE, Ore., July 08, 2016 — Air Force 1st Lt. Cale Simmons, who cleared the bar at 5.65 meters — 18 feet, 6.4 inches — in the men’s pole vault finals, secured a spot on the U.S. Olympic team at the U.S. Olympic team track and field finals here July…
It was a disappointing morning for Tori Pena in the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam. The Finn Valley AC athlete failed to clear 4.45 meters in the opening round of the pole vault at the Olympic Stadium. Pena needed to clear 4.55 meters to qualify. Pena cleared 4.20 and 4.35…
VIENNA — Russia’s track and field athletes will be banned from competing for their country at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after a landmark decision Friday that punished the sports powerhouse for a systematic doping system that operated “from the top down” and tainted the entire team. In an unprecedented…
KURTIS Marschall stood eye-to-eye with his Olympic Games dream and stared it down. The Happy Valley teenager had already been crowned national pole vault champion after jumping a personal best 5.55m at the Australian athletics titles in Sydney last week. With the gold medal secure, he had three attempts to…
On 18 November, Rio de Janeiro’s city government announced that three more venues for next summer’s Olympic Games have been completed. The Future Arena, which will host will host handball during the Olympic Games and goalball during the Paralympic Games, the Olympic Golf Course and the Whitewater Stadium, which will…
Think about it: You sprint at full speed while carrying a heavy pole, then use that pole to catapult yourself twenty feet in the air, then fall. The pole vault is my favorite Olympic event partly because it seems like such a bizarre practice, the sport that most closely resembles a dare…
There’s a lot of unusual equipment being schlepped on airplanes en route to London for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games like kayaks, bows and arrows, rifles. But maybe the oddest in terms of baggage and handling are the poles used by pole vaulters. Ranging in size from 15 to 17…
Athletics – Women’s Pole Vault; Schwartz will be Israel’s only representative in the athletics field events in London. Jillian Schwartz will be Israel’s only representative in the athletics field events in London and will be looking to add another achievement to the rich tradition of local pole vaulting. Two-time European…
