BEIJING (AP) — With a strange choice for background music blaring around the Bird’s Nest, Yarisley Silva attempted to clear 5.01 meters in the pole vault shortly after winning her first gold medal at the world championships. The song, “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen, didn’t affect her. For…
This is a transcript. ELIZABETH JACKSON: Australian pole vaulter Steve Hooker has leapt into the record books by winning Olympic gold last night in Beijing. It’s Australia’s 12th gold medal of the Games and it was sealed with an Olympic record height of 5.96 metres. It’s Australia’s first athletics gold…
