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Every Olympic year is emotional. The visions, the goals and the sacrifices day in and day out together accumulate to one moment in time. A pivotal and life changing moment that is the absolute epitome of athlete excellence, the Olympic Games. The Rio Olympics were filled with stories of athletic…
When Katerina Stefanidi and her coach and husband Mitchell Krier were looking for a place to train for the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, the SPIRE Institute in Geneva soon topped the list. When Katerina Stefanidi and her coach and husband Mitchell Krier were looking for a place to train…
Eliza McCartney became a household name after the 19-year-old won bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics in pole vault. Many people have seen what McCartney did in Rio and have decided to give pole vaulting a crack. The new breed of pole vaulters are being trained by Doug Balcob, who…
TORONTO, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Canadian world champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber was at the Rio Olympics despite earlier testing positive for cocaine but the decision to allow him to compete was the right one, Athletics Canada said on Thursday. The Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada’s ruling was released…
The world champion pole vaulter Shawn Barber was allowed to compete at the Rio Olympics despite testing positive for cocaine he inadvertently ingested during an encounter with a woman he met on the personals site Craigslist. The 22-year-old went into the Games as one of the favourites to win gold…
CALGARY — Canadian pole vaulter Shawn Barber competed at the 2016 Rio Summer Games in spite of testing positive in July for cocaine. In a decision rendered Aug. 11 but released on Thursday, the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada ruled Barber inadvertently ingested the banned substance by kissing a…
In the second part of his Olympic review, Tom McNab analyses the pole vault, long jump and distance events Let’s start by recapping where athletics is positioned. It is not a developing sport, except for in nations coming from a low base. Therefore, if British athletics wishes to improve it must change outlook and look…
Olympic bronze medallist Eliza McCartney has won another award after her brilliant display at the Rio Games. The Kiwi pole vaulter has been presented with the prestigious University of Auckland Blues Award. McCartney, 19, leapt to bronze at the Rio Olympics, but her award recognises her jump of 4.64m in December last year,…
CABOT — Lexi Weeks of Cabot may not have won a medal or qualified for the finals of the women’s pole vault at the Summer Olympics in Brazil, but she’s still proud of her accomplishments this summer. Weeks, 19, was the third qualifier from the United States in the pole…
